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4th April 2022

Weekly Espresso

The infoshot to help kick-start your week

Last Week

  • Shanghai launched a two-stage lockdown of its 26 million residents, closing bridges and tunnels, and restricting highway traffic in an attempt to contain surging COVID-19 cases.
  • U.S. President Joe Biden plans to release up to 1 million barrels of oil a day for six months from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in a new effort to drive down oil prices. Consequently, U.S. oil prices fell 7%, just above $100 on Thursday.
  • The S&P500 ended the first quarter down by almost 5%, Dow Jones Industrial Average down 4.6% and the Nasdaq composite index down 9.1%.
  • Inflation in the eurozone hit its highest level of 7.5%.
  • The U.S. labour market tightened again in March with the jobless rate falling to a new post-pandemic low. Nonfarm payrolls rose by 431,000 in the month through mid-March and the unemployment rate fell to 3.6% from 3.8% in February.

Market Pulse

Coming Up

  • UK Construction PMI to be released on 6th April.
  • US FOMC minutes released on 6th April.
  • UK Halifax House Price Index MoM to be released on 7th April.

Notice:

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Risk Barometer

-0.6

as at latest realignment 31/03/2022

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