12.16.2024

As 2024 comes to a close, Karim Awenat, head of EMEA and APAC macro trading at Invesco, advises traders to remain on high alert for a busy week and any major surprises that could disrupt markets and lightly staffed desks ahead of the holidays.
“Don’t expect it to be a quiet week” he says.
He discusses how Invesco is navigating the year-end liquidity squeeze; he unpacks his team’s approach to high and low-touch trading in current conditions; he looks at trends in fixed-income funding levels and offers one piece of advice to traders as they wrap up the year.