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30th May 2022
Our view that central banks don’t need to aggressively increase interest rates is starting to sound much less controversial as global economic growth is showing signs of slowing.
23rd May 2022
Global equity markets have been on a roller-coaster ride this week, as the market appears to be waking up to what we have been arguing ad-nauseum about for months: that significantly higher interest rates won’t bring down inflation but will hurt economic growth.
16th May 2022
The end of the week brought Friday 13th – unlucky for some, but for many key markets it was a day of recovering early week losses.
9th May 2022
This week equity markets were all about Fed and BoE monetary policy meetings. Given recent inflation data is screaming for higher interest rates, it was no surprise to us that both central banks increased interest rates: the Fed increased US interest rates by 0.50% and the BoE increased UK interest rates by 0.25%.
3rd May 2022
It has been an exhausting week thanks to some savage equity market volatility, as in addition to navigating the war in Ukraine; higher inflation readings; and a struggling Chinese economy due to coronavirus lockdowns, we also had some big US companies reporting earnings.
25th April 2022
Many markets were closed on Monday for the Easter holidays, and whilst you would be hard pressed to miss the festivities in the UK, of course many markets are based in countries that do not celebrate Easter as a national holiday, and remained open.