Over the years, financial markets have grown used to expecting the unexpected. Almost any passage of time in the history of financial markets is replete with events, which have taken market participants by surprise. However, it would be fair to say that the 2020s have just taken this to an altogether different level. In a lighter vein, one could wonder how the first quarter of the last few years has made it a habit of making a mockery of beginning-of-year forecasts. While 2020 was a year that began under the looming threat of geopolitical tensions between the US and Iran; by the end of the first quarter, the thing that had turned the world upside down was, after all, a virus. At the start of 2022 while all eyes were on the spread of Omicron; by the end of the first quarter, the event that actually shook everyone was a geopolitical one (the Russia-Ukraine war).