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2023 Market Outlook – Helping the Financially Ambitious

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On Tuesday 4thJuly Senior Analyst Axel Rudolph, a 30-year market veteran, discussed what to look out for in the second half of 2023 including:

  • An overview of H1
  • Analysis of the current macro environment
  • Drivers behind the recent rally in global markets
  • Fundamentals supporting a continuation of the rally
  • Fundamental and technical reasons why the rally may fizzle out
  • Market focus for H2
  • Potential risks for H2 and beyond
  • What are charts and price action telling us?

Axel Rudolph is a Senior Market Analyst at IG and an award-winning technical analyst. Before joining IG Axel held technical analysis research and trading positions at Commerzbank, Société Générale, The Co-Operative Bank and Dow Jones Newswires.

He is a Fellow, Non-Executive Director and Head of Education at the Society of Technical Analysts (STA), having previously been its chairman. Axel has also been a visiting lecturer in technical analysis at several London universities for over two decades and Vice-Chairman Europe on the board of the International Federation of Technical Analysts (IFTA).


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