Dusseldorf The US Federal Reserve (Fed) raised interest rates by 0.5 percentage points last Wednesday. In the future, this will now be between 0.75 and 1 percent. The European Central Bank (ECB) has already announced that it will initiate a turnaround in interest rates in the summer. The reason for this is the immensely increasing inflation rates worldwide.
Both rising interest rates and high inflation rates are usually bad for the stock market. Consumer goods stocks are the exception here: tried-and-tested and everyday products and services are always needed, even in times of crisis – rising prices can therefore be passed on to customers more easily.
Companies in the consumer goods industry are also making solid profits during the Ukraine war. The stocks of these companies are therefore attractive. Equity analyst Ulf Sommer identified five cheap consumer goods stocks and analyzed them.
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