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The charts that matter: omicron rattles markets
Markets were rattled by the emergence of a new strain of Covid-19. Here’s how it has affected the charts that matter most to the global economy.
This week’s cover has the omicron variant of Covid ruining everyone’s Christmas. Hopefully, it won’t come to that, of course. As Alex Rankine says, the new variant is a cause for concern, but it’s not a cause for panic – though markets certainly took its appearance as a sign to overreact a little. We look at just how serious things really are, and explain what it might mean for your money.
Our main investment feature this week is on renewable energy. Fossil fuels are on their way out (though, as we keep telling you, they’ll be around for quite some time yet, so don’t write them off). But in the longer term, renewable energy is the way to go. That’s opened up plenty of opportunities for investors, and Matthew Partridge picks some of the best.
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This week’s podcast features Ewan Markson-Brown. Ewan spent many years at Baillie Gifford running some extremely successful Pacific-focused funds, but recently moved to Crux Asset Management, where he’s moving down the market-cap scale to concentrate on smaller companies. Find out why, and what he’s buying now, here.
Here are the links for this week’s editions of Money Morning and other web articles you may have missed:
The Chinese yuan (or renminbi) strengthened a little against the greenback (when the red line is rising, the dollar is strengthening while the yuan is weakening).
(US initial jobless claims, four-week moving average: since Jan 2020)
The oil price saw a big fall after omicron’s emergence threatened to bring restrictions back to much of the world. But in the long run, as John noted this week, the long-term picture looks rather more optimistic.
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