Archive for Weekly Market Commentaries - page 20

• 8:13 pm
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This week was another tough one as stocks continued to sell-off. The reason is the same as last week; inflation keeps going up, so expectations of how aggressively central banks will hike interest rates keep rising.

• 12:15 pm
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This week US Fed chair Jerome Powell added to market volatility by saying the term ‘transitory’ should be retired from the discussion about interest rates.

• 8:47 pm
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This week there hasn’t been much for markets to get excited about. Headline inflation figures were up a bit, but the underlying data still suggests pandemic disruption is the main culprit.

• 5:56 pm
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This week the Bank of England caught a lot of people by surprise when it left interest rates unchanged.

• 8:12 pm
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This week the political theatre of the budget has dominated the headlines. While the event is one of the highlights of the Westminster calendar, the modern practice of leaking everything in it to friendly media outlets has made the event itself something of an anti-climax.

• 10:31 am
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This week was especially turbulent as the ongoing energy squeeze and the baseless speculation about what that might mean for central bank policy rattled financial markets.

• 4:22 pm
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This week we saw markets respond to higher inflation and the changing outlook from central banks.