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Week ending 28th January 2022.
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.
Week ending 21st January 2022.
24th January 2022
It has been a miserable week for global equities as the risk of aggressive interest rate increases and geopolitical uncertainty combined to create a perfect storm.
Week ending 14th January 2022.
17th January 2022
Data this week showed that the US was living with the fastest inflation in nearly 40 years (since June 1982 to be precise) at 7.0%.
Week ending 7th January 2022.
10th January 2022
Global equity markets rang in the New Year with the release of the minutes from the Fed monetary policy meeting held on 15 December 2021 – which were much more hawkish than we expected.
Week ending 31st December 2021.
4th January 2022
As you can see from the accompanying table, global equity markets had a positive week (and end to the year) despite the large jump in coronavirus cases.
Week ending 17th December 2021.
20th December 2021
Understandably, the Omicron coronavirus variant continues to dominate headlines, however, there were a lot of important developments from central banks this week.