Notes Today:

 

• Nikkei 225 Hits 6-week Low
• Heating Oil Hits 7-year High
• S&P/ASX 200 at 4-week Low
• Crude at 7-Year High 

• British consumer price inflation rose more than expected to 5.4% in December, its highest in almost 30 years
• Germanies housing boom has accelerated yet again. Home prices rose 14% in 2021. 

• Julia Davis @JuliaDavisNews: On multiple (RUSSIAN) shows, experts and pundits are claiming that the principle of MAD (mutually assured destruction) is obsolete and trying to convince the audiences that Russia could prevail over the U.S. in a nuclear war. 

• The Baltic Exchange Dry  Index  at its lowest level in about a year, on weaker demand across all vessel segments.