Global macro

Global macro is an investment strategy that leverages macroeconomic and geopolitical data to analyze and predict moves in financial markets.

[3][4] Large-scale or "macro" political and economic events can disproportionately impact certain sectors, such as the energy, commodity, and currency markets, over others.

[4] Large-scale macro events pushed market prices of both soft (cocoa, fruit and sugar) and hard (gold, silver, and copper) commodities to move in recognizable patterns.

[5] During the 2010s, quantitative investment funds dedicated resources to global macro strategies due to the complexity involved with analyzing large amounts of dynamic economic and political data.

[4] Modern technology including AI has been used to sort through data and in the execution of trades involving certain sectors, such as the energy, commodity, and currency markets, among others.

The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine destabilized global energy markets and created investment opportunities as Russia was a key oil and gas supplier to much of Europe. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]