The latest market updates are brought to you by Investment Managers & Analysts at Wealth at Work Limited which is a member of the Wealth at Work group of companies.
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%.
7th February 2022
Whilst last week was all about the US Fed and its hawkish comments on interest rates, this week was all about the BoE and ECB.
31st January 2022
Uncertainty about how quickly the Fed will increase US interest rates, coupled with escalating geopolitical tensions over Ukraine, meant we had another extremely volatile (and dizzying) week as we experienced a number of very big back-and-forth intra-day movements.