Week Ahead Market Brief: November 16 – 20
Financial journalists were not short of material this week. US inflation came in hotter than expected, Fed officials turned far more hawkish, and the Trump administration signalled it would double down on its policy playbook. Risk appetite took a hit when Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s chief executive, overclocked his personal life and left the world’s biggest artificial intelligence company temporarily rudderless. An outage in Microsoft’s products silenced communications – and raised productivity – across the corporate world. Then, last night, a failed software update forced a ground stop of all air traffic in America, cancelling thousands of flights and stranding passengers...