Good Results Fail to Impress the Markets

We end 2021 as we began it, with a new coronavirus impacting our health, freedoms, family and daily life, companies, jobs, economies and global trade.

The emergence of the highly infectious COVID-19 Omicron variant is a major blow to a return to relative normality, which appeared to be on the horizon for 2022. It is clear, as predicted by most virologists, that the fight to constrain COVID-19 is neither going to be easy nor short term.

Elsewhere in this month's issue of Currency News, there are articles covering the impact COVID-19 as well as digital payments on cash usage and the implications regarding the availability and role of cash in the future. While the companies we feature in Industry Watch are being directly affected by these trends and issues, they are also subject to market trends.