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11th October 2021
The week started on a negative footing as energy prices rose (which focused the market on its impact on inflation and interest rates), while the US inched towards default.
4th October 2021
Global equity markets fell this week – and in doing so, ended September lower.
27th September 2021
Despite the poor start to the week, when at one point on Monday (20th September 2021) the US equity markets were down nearly 3%
20th September 2021
It was a bit of a messy week for global equity markets: after initially moving higher, equities fell towards the end of the week as inflation data
13th September 2021
As with the Fed, the financial markets have become obsessed with the outlook of the ECB monetary policy given a number of ECB policymakers have recently stated that they favour a tapering of the ECB’s QE program.
6th September 2021
After last week’s speech from Jay Powell, the Fed Chair, delivered everything we hoped for when he made it clear that any tapering of its bond buying program (QE) would be slow and based on economic data.