Welcome to Macro Insights #12. This week markets remained somewhat volatile as uncertainty about how many rate rises and/or just how high an initial US rate rise may be, hit investor confidence this past week following Fed Governor Lael Brainard’s signal that the Fed is getting ready to start raising rates in March.

Welcome to our fourth quarter 2021 Macro Quarterly Insights. We will be taking a look at what has happened in the world of global economics and finance over the past quarter and what events and actions may impact markets in the next few months.

Welcome to Macro Insights #11. This week was Central bank week: the US Federal Reserve, the Bank of England (BoE), the European Central Bank (ECB) along with about a dozen others, all met this week.

Welcome to Macro Insights #10. The uncertainty around the Omicron variant and the hope that it may, even if more transmissible, not be as deadly as other Covid variants, helped push US markets this past week.

Welcome to our Monthly Macro Insights. November was a challenging month for markets due to concerns over rising inflation and the resurgence of Covid infections.

Welcome to Macro Insights #9. Over the past week, US markets reacted to Fed Chairman Jerome Powell re-appoint for a second term with the S&P 500 dropping before rising slightly towards the end of the week, the dollar rose as expectations of rate hike taking place by June 2022 became more entrenched based on initial jobless claims falling to a 52 year low.

Welcome to Macro Insights #8. Over the past week we’ve seen US stock market indices fall as the reality that inflation may hit the economic recovery harder than expected and that the Fed may need to take more action sooner than expected is sinking in. 

Welcome to Macro Insights #7. Over the past week we’ve seen US treasuries fall then rally as the higher than expected US CPI at 6.2%, above the expected 5.8% and the highest since 1990, led to US stock markets closing lower after 19 weeks of highs.

Over the past week markets continued to confound. In the curious case of why markets aren’t having a textbook reaction to slowing growth and higher inflation, the S&P and Nasdaq reached new highs on Wednesday. The only explanation can be a series of above expected corporate earnings and that supply-chain disruptions and labour and raw material shortages will be resolved by early 2022 as (or rather, if) Covid and its variants recede with increased vaccinations and no new variants emerging.

Welcome to the 5th in our Macro Insights series. Over the last week we’ve seen flatter treasury yields emerging as concerns over the speed of growth due to labour and supply constraints continue.

Victor Argonov, Senior Analyst at investment firm EXANTE, weighs the impact of COVID-19 against the past financial crises.

Welcome to the 4th in our Macro Insights series. Over the last week we’ve seen solid corporate results help counterbalance inflation concerns although investors are looking closely at how higher energy and raw material costs are affecting margins.

EXANTE held its eighth and final 10th anniversary event in Rovinj, Croatia on 20 October 2021.

On 15 October our EXANTEN celebrations moved to its penultimate destination — Warsaw, Poland.

Welcome to the 3rd in our Macro Insights series. Over the last week, during its annual meeting, the IMF said the global economy is projected to grow 5.9% in 2021 and 4.9 % in 2022 (0.1% lower for 2021 than in the July 2021 World Economic Outlook (WEO) Update).

On 7 October, we held our sixth EXANTEN celebration with a reception in the centre of Madrid. 

Welcome to our first Macro Quarterly Insights. We will be taking a look at what has happened in the world of global economics and finance over the past quarter and what events and actions may impact markets in the next few months.

The week leaves investors faced with a multitude of macro-economic uncertainties including an ever more likely and faster taper from the Fed, to uncertainty around China’s about face on funding dirty energy (coal) to its ability to keep injecting cash into a jittery post Evergrande market to the continuing supply chain bottlenecks and labour shortages that are stoking inflation.

Our fifth EXANTEN party took place in Cherasco, Italy on 2 October.

On 30 September, the EXANTE team celebrated the company’s 10th anniversary, EXANTEN, in Limassol, Cyprus.

As the global recovery gains traction, emerging markets (EMs) will have to deal with developed markets becoming more sensitive to supply chain concentration.

Our 10th anniversary celebration, EXANTEN, continued on Friday, 17 September in Kyiv, Ukraine where 120 guests joined us for a reception featuring live music and birthday cake.

EXANTE is proud to be a media partner at the global digital finance forum Blockchain Fest 2021. The forum will take place in Limassol, Cyprus on 2–3 December 2021.

Partnering with the prestigious London Concours, EXANTE will be exhibiting at this year’s much anticipated show.

Reinforcing our influence in the events sphere, EXANTE sustains its outreach with another leading media collaboration.

EXANTE is happy to secure a media partnership at Blockchain Fest that will take place on December 2-3, 2021 in Limassol.

EXANTE was happy to secure a media partnership at the Virtual MarTech Summit APAC on February, 24-26, 2021.

An exciting collaboration is set to commemorate the highly-anticipated gaming event, beginning the first leg of its virtual tour March 3rd.

EXANTE steps up as a Media Partner of The Conference.Exchanges. Its DeFi Edition is going to be the third event of The Conference.Exchanges series and will take place online on March 5, 2021.

EXANTE is happy to announce its participation in Global DeFi Congress as a Media Partner. 

EXANTE has signed up as a Media Partner at the 6th world-renowned Global Blockchain Congress by Agora Group.

The inaugural EXANTE and Amplify trading simulation took place on Wednesday, February 26th. The event brought  students from universities as far afield as Dundee up to its central Birmingham venue.

EXANTE hosted the Investor Talks conference in St. Petersburg. The Talks brought together 70 attendees, including EXANTE's partners and their clients.