Weekly market outlook – week ending 9 August, 2019

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week The past week saw a roller coaster ride in share markets with sharp falls after China responded to Trump’s latest tariffs... Read more continue reading

Insight multi-asset weekly update: US-China trade concerns returned to the fore, affecting risk sentiment

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Market and economic review US-China trade concerns returned to the fore and weighed on risk sentiment last week. Equity markets fell 2-6% over the week following the unexpected announcement of... Read more continue reading

Property Listings Declined in July 2019

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Figures released yesterday by SQM Research reveal national residential property listings continued to decline in July by 2.8%, to 316,391 from 325,404 in June 2019. Compared to 12 months ago,... Read more continue reading

Australian Fixed Income outlook- Domestic economy gets a kick start but global trade a risk

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Domestic Investment Opportunities – credit still a focus Western Asset, a leading fixed income investment manager affiliate of Legg Mason, in its recent midyear market outlook notes: “Trade negotiations have... Read more continue reading

Weekly market update – week ending 2 August, 2019

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week It was back to “risk off” over the last week as the resumption of the US/China trade war, a less dovish... Read more continue reading

Takeaways for the loan market after the Fed cut

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The U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) has cut its policy rate for the first time in more than a decade, marking just the fourth time over the past 20 years that... Read more continue reading

Australian shares hit record highs – is the decade long underperformance versus global shares over?

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Key points The long time taken for Australian shares to regain their 2007 high and their underperformance compared to global shares this decade reflects a combination of payback after their... Read more continue reading

Insight Multi-Asset Weekly Update – all eyes on the Federal Reserve meeting Wednesday with a cut widely expected

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Market and economic review A positive week for risk assets, with US corporate earnings being well received by the market Global equities ended last week in positive territory on the... Read more continue reading

Weekly market update – week ending 26 July, 2019

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets rose over the last week helped along by positive news on trade, a deal to resolve the US debt... Read more continue reading

CommSec Research: State of the States July 2019

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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; construction work... Read more continue reading