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Since the big sell-off in the Chinese stock market in October last year, stock prices have risen sharply, which naturally is starting to attract attention.

Inflation continues to impact many of the movements in the financial markets around the world, but the speed of the coming retreat in inflation rates is also of decisive importance.

The overall financial market is still strongly focused on several negative developments in many economies around the world, but investors must always be aware when everyone in the financial markets is looking in the same direction.

The European Central Bank is behind in hiking interest rates, though more work might arise since spontaneous energy crises can also create unexpected hyperinflation periods during the rest of this decade.

Italy's current credit rating has been set to "negative outlook" by Moody's, and though it may still take a while before it formally becomes a significant change, investors should be quicker to react.

The financial markets are currently experiencing highly dramatic interest rate increases from the US central bank Fed, though without panic thus far, but in the background is a continuously developing global macroeconomic split.

The Covid-19 crisis caused a significant drop in income for many households around the world, but at some point, the journey towards the middle class will revert again - probably in even more countries than before.

Several major economies are moving forward, though the inflation in particular, shows muscles which should generate more central bank rhetoric towards rate hikes.