J.P. Morgan Global Market Strategist Kerry Craig says 2022 wasn’t “a great year for investors”.
“We had central banks that were aggressively increasing interest rates to fight inflation that was at multi-decade highs, we had still a China that
was in lockdown and pandemics,” he told Sky News Business Reporter Edward Boyd.“We saw equities really fall quite dramatically in a historical context.”
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