Weekly market update – week ending 19 February, 2016

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week The past week saw the rebound in shares and other risk assets continue. Most share markets saw gains, bond yields were... Read more continue reading

Weekly market update – week ending 12 February, 2016

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week The turmoil in financial markets continued over the last week as worries about global growth, and specifically the exposure of global... Read more continue reading

Mixed airfares; Global shares in focus

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Monthly airfares data; Sharemarket trends Airfares: In smoothed terms, discount fares fell by 6.1 per cent over the year to February. But business class airfares rose at a 7.0 per... Read more continue reading

Where are we in the credit cycle?

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Standard Life Investments, the global investment manager, warns investors should expect another year of volatile outcomes in global credit markets, with further dispersion in regional performance. In February’s Global Outlook,... Read more continue reading

Petrol falls again; Job ads at 3½ year highs

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Weekly petrol prices; Job advertisements Petrol: According to the Australian Institute of Petroleum, the national average Australian price of unleaded petrol fell by 0.3 cents to 111.6 cents per litre... Read more continue reading

Weekly market update – week ending 5 February, 2016

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week The past week has seen most share markets give up much or all of their Fed and Bank of Japan inspired... Read more continue reading

The economy and Fed policy

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Real GDP growth rose by a 0.7% annualized rate in the fourth quarter, hurt by continuing cutbacks in energy capital spending, inventory liquidation and foreign trade. The bruising impact of... Read more continue reading

Weekly market update – week ending 29 January, 2016

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week The past week has been rather messy. On the one hand global growth fears remain with US and Eurozone shares falling... Read more continue reading

CommSec State of the States

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January 2016 – Overall results How are Australia’s states and territories performing? Each quarter CommSec attempts to find out by analysing eight key indicators: economic growth; retail spending; equipment investment; unemployment;... Read more continue reading

Disruptive effects of oil-price plunge

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Compared to past cycles, the oil-price plunge from mid-2014 through early 2016 has proven to be longer in duration as well as larger in scale. In turn, the adjustments in... Read more continue reading