This week Real Vision’s Max Wiethe breaks down the equity and commodity market’s reactions to the discovery of the new Omicron variant of COVID. Equity volatility spiked late last week and has remained elevated this week as bipolar markets oscilate between sharp sell-offs and rallies. As well, similar moves are playing out from the initial COVID outbreak in 2020 like energy commodities and travel stocks falling sharply. However, some things are very different this time around with work from home darlings like Zoom not seeing the same love as last time and much different landscape for central bank policy with supply chain driven inflation at much higher levels. In The Chatter segment, Roger Hirst speaks with Refinitiv’s Darrenth Hawken about how the infrastructure megatheme is evolving, focusing on the balance between encouraging sustainable infrastructure for the future while also giving enough attention legacy infrastructure and technologies that are still vital to powering the economy through the energy transition.

 

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