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21st March 2022
We have had a week packed full of central bank monetary policy meetings, coupled with tentative progress in talks between Russia and Ukraine (neutrality) – which was not only positive for global equity markets, but it also helped take some of the speculative heat out of the oil price,
14th March 2022
While the news reports from Ukraine continue to be upsetting and depressing as Russia’s attack is showing no signs of letting up, many of the major equity markets ended the week higher.
7th March 2022
In addition to the furthering of sanctions from Western governments against Russia, we’ve seen many household names cut ties with Russia over the last week.
28th February 2022
Despite the escalation in actions from Russian president Vladimir Putin since our last update, we believe that the financial markets have already priced in much of the negativity, and on Friday, we saw markets close significantly up.
21st February 2022
Global equity markets like predictability, not uncertainty – and that was evident this week as equity markets were at the mercy of every new news headline about Ukraine.
14th February 2022
The big event of the week was the release of the latest US CPI inflation reading - and yet again, the reading came in higher than the major economist expected, at 7.5% versus their expectations of 7.3%.