Dusseldorf From an investor’s perspective, the stock market year 2022 has so far been anything but good. As a result of the war in Ukraine, the prices for oil and gas, among other things, have risen immensely. From then on, the aim of the central banks was to stop the resulting increase in inflation. The Federal Reserve has already raised interest rates several times for this purpose. In the first half of the year, the markets were characterized by interest rate fears and price slumps.
In Europe, too, these interest rate fears took shape in July. For the first time in eleven years, the European Central Bank (ECB) intends to raise interest rates by 0.25 percentage points next week. A renewed increase should then follow in September. A trend-setting step for Handelsblatt editor Andreas Neuhaus: “It will be important how much the key interest rate is actually raised. It is also possible that the ECB wants to surprise the markets and intentionally raises more than announced.”
How realistic a second euro crisis is, what role Corona will play and how justified the concerns about a recession are – host Lena Jesberg talks to Andreas Neuhaus in the first part of Handelsblatt Today Extended. The financial editor classifies current market events and their effects on the stock exchanges in the second half of the year.
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