07 September 2022 | 1 min. readingtime
After a strong, but short-lived recovery in July, the financial markets in August on balance returned to the same picture as in the first half of 2022: rising interest rates and falling share prices.
On the stock exchanges, after a disastrous first half of the year, the price recovery actually lasted not one but two months: from mid-June to mid-August. This was almost like an old-fashioned 'camping rally'. Unfortunately, in the second half of August, that rally was not only short-lived, but also nowhere near strong enough to make up for the losses of the first half. After a price increase of almost 10% in July, the MSCI World Developed Markets index fell again on balance by 2% in August, so that the price loss for the whole of 2022 is still around 7.5%. It should be noted that there were differences at regional level.
Read more in the August market update:
15 March 2022 | 1 min. readingtime
30 May 2022 | 1 min. readingtime
Disappointing economic growth and skyrocketing prices: 2022 looks set to be a typical “stagflation” year.
06 July 2022 | 1 min. readingtime
Across the board, financial markets continued the negative trend of recent months in June, and once again no asset class escaped the slump. This makes the first half of 2022 one of the worst first half of the past 50 years for financial markets.
