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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Global share markets rose over the last week helped by benign economic data. Australian shares slipped though with consumer and financial shares down on worries about the economy. Bond yields were flat to up globally but fell in Australia with the 10-year bond yield falling back […]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week US, Eurozone, Japanese and Chinese shares fell over the last week on worries about global growth, but Australian shares pushed slightly higher on increasing expectations for rate cuts offsetting, for now, the negative impact of slowing growth. Bond yields fell as the ECB announced more monetary […]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week While US shares fell slightly over the last week with geopolitical noise not helping other major share markets including Australian shares continued to rise, arguably playing catch up to the rally in US shares. The Australian share market was led higher by health, IT, banks and […]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week While US shares were little changed over the last week other major markets saw solid gains helped by good news on trade. This included Australian shares which got a further lift from reasonable earnings results, more talk of rate cuts and upgrades to earnings growth expectations […]