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4th July 2022
It was a mixed bag for markets this week, as end of the week losses erased early week gains. Despite a volatile week for many key markets, the S&P 500 ended the week by closing 1% up on the day.
27th June 2022
Global equity markets rose this week due to falling inflation expectations – which hopefully means that central bank policymakers will scale back their expected aggressive interest rate increases.
20th June 2022
As you can see from the accompanying table, global equity markets had another horrible week following a number of central bank policy meetings.
13th June 2022
After a positive start to the week, global equity markets fell as the weekend approached after the ECB outlined plans for higher Eurozone interest rates and US CPI inflation data for May disappointed. As expected, ECB policymakers yesterday (Thursday 9 June 2022) left interest rates unchanged.
6th June 2022
As you can see from the accompanying table, with long weekends in both the US and UK, it was a bit of a nothing week. The main theme of the week was again inflation.
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.