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Forecasts are positive for the global term insurance market, which is expected to expand at 4.2% over the period to 2030. There are a number of different factors that have been driving the increase in market growth, including the much larger volumes of middle-class people in developing countries and the increase and expansion of new digital sales channels.

The trend towards renewable energy continues to spike as corporate buyers focus more acutely on this area of commodities. This is despite the fact that there has been an almost 6% increase in the cost of power purchase agreements. It's now very much a seller's market and corporate buyers of renewable energy are going through the process of adjusting expectations as a result.

After a period of stagnation and uncertainty, the banking and financial services sector looks set to go into overdrive this year, especially in terms of hiring for sales and trading jobs USA. Restraint and cost-cutting may have been the themes last year but there is already evidence that banks are starting to look at great swathes of hiring to support growth throughout 2022. That relates to employees across the board, including senior hires - with plenty of headhunting likely to take place between now and the end of the year.

PwC announced recently that the financial services giant is going to be investing $12 billion over the next five years in a major hiring drive. These resources are being channeled into creating 100,000 jobs that are specifically focused on providing more support for clients that are trying to come to terms with climate and diversity reporting, as well as the role of AI in global strategy.

Like many industries, the insurance market experienced issues during 2020, as the pandemic affected growth. A new report has identified that, following a better year in 2021, the specialty insurance jobs market is going to experience stunning growth in the coming years up to 2026. Both the fastest-growing markets and the largest-developed markets offer opportunities for specialty insurance business - and this is going to cause the demand for new talent to spike. In particular, the report identified significant momentum coming from the emerging markets in the APAC and Latin American regions.

One of the key predictions for commodities jobs in the USA this year is that the second-hand commodities platform market is going to boom in 2022. The past couple of years has seen a significant spike in the demand for online selling platforms and applications focused on the second-hand commodities market.

After the challenges of 2020, the boom year of 2021 was a welcome relief for financial services jobs. Many recruiters described it as the busiest hiring market in recent times with huge demand for candidates across the financial services sector. Hiring cycles and recruitment windows in banking and financial services seem to be a thing of the past, replaced by the constant ongoing challenge that firms face to find the best people.

Sales and trading jobs growth looks positive for firms all over the USA in 2022. Most investment banks and financial services professionals weathered the storm in 2021 with some ease - and for many, this year they will see a spike in activity that helps drive up growth. Factors such as the slowing down of quantitative easing, shifting interest rates, changes in client activity and market volatility are all going to create the need for hiring in the sales and trading sphere.

Oil and gas prices have been spiking significantly in recent months. However, even with this incredible upward movement, helium still remains expensive - 100 times more expensive than natural gas. Natural gas fields tend to be the source of most helium and it's in the USA where you'll find the largest conventional natural gas field. There is no longer a federal reserve of helium and the potential shortages make helium a strong bet in 2022.

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has had a bumpy journey since it was first enacted in 2010. However, when President Biden came into office in January last year he reopened the nation's online insurance marketplace - a move that was incredibly timely given the ongoing pandemic conditions the country was suffering through. In the six weeks following 1st November last year, an all-time high of 12.6 million Americans signed up for health coverage under the ACA. President Biden has been quoted as saying, "As we keep up our fight against the pandemic, it is more important than ever that we continue to expand coverage and lower costs."