Five unexpected events that could shock the markets in 2022

Forget Covid-19 – it’s the unexpected twists that will rattle markets in 2022, says Matthew Lynn. Here are five possibilities

Jeff Bezos
Bezos could return to Amazon when he’s bored with playing with rockets
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A new variant of Covid-19; a scandal swirling around Boris Johnson – there are lots of things that we can be sure will happen during 2022. Investors will have already taken them in their stride, but what are the unexpected twists, the surprises that no one saw coming? With an obvious pinch of salt, here are five events that might rock the markets over the next 12 months.

Bezos will be back at Amazon

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Matthew Lynn

Matthew Lynn is a columnist for Bloomberg, and writes weekly commentary syndicated in papers such as the Daily Telegraph, Die Welt, the Sydney Morning Herald, the South China Morning Post and the Miami Herald. He is also an associate editor of Spectator Business, and a regular contributor to The Spectator. Before that, he worked for the business section of the Sunday Times for ten years. 

He has written books on finance and financial topics, including Bust: Greece, The Euro and The Sovereign Debt Crisis and The Long Depression: The Slump of 2008 to 2031. Matthew is also the author of the Death Force series of military thrillers and the founder of Lume Books, an independent publisher.