
After an extended weekend on account of the Presidents Day holiday yesterday, bears are back to bite as a hotter-than-expected CPI of 0.5% for January has renewed anxiety regarding protracted hawkishness by the Federal Reserve.
The volatile market environment is not too divergent from the turbulent geopolitical and macroeconomic environment, and businesses are grappling with it amid the ever-present double-edged sword of technological disruption hanging over their heads.