FlexTrade: Top Risk Trends Driving Markets in 2022

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Concerns about Russia’s escalating tensions with Ukraine, the Federal Reserve’s plans to raise interest rates, and how aggressively the central bank will fight inflation, are among the top risks driving stock market volatility in 2022.  

While Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has caused turmoil in global markets and pushed geopolitical risk into the foreground, some of the newer risk trends that hedge funds and asset managers are monitoring include data misinformation and crowdsourced volatility, according to a virtual panel, “Data Minds: The Risk Outlook for 2022,” sponsored by data provider Wall Street Horizon.