The top and bottom charts show the earnings expectations for 2021 and 2022 by market and sector respectively. The COVID-19 pandemic has hit cyclical sectors hard in 2020, but they rebounded in 2021 as the global economy gradually normalized.

Meanwhile, the tech, health care and defensive sectors weathered the pandemic well with positive earnings in 2020 and kept growing in 2021. In 2022, the main concerns driving expectations include uncertainty on China, geopolitical tensions and economic concerns in the form of inflation and spillovers from slowing developed markets.