Weekly market update – week ending 11 January, 2019

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Since our last weekly update three weeks ago investment markets have been on a bit of a roller coaster ride, with

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Weekly market update – week ending 7 December, 2018

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week The past week has been a roller coaster ride in equity markets. Shares initially rose on the positive outcome from the

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Weekly market update – week ending 30 November 2018

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week US shares rose 4.8% over the last week, their strongest week December since 2011, helped by increasing signs from the Fed

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Weekly market update – week ending 23 November, 2018

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets remained under pressure over the last week with many falling back to or below their late October lows on

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Weekly market update – week ending 16 November, 2018

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week “Risk off” returned with a vengeance to financial markets over the last week with most share market falling and bond yields

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Weekly market update – week ending 9 November, 2018

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets mostly rose over the last week, helped in particular by a favourable reaction to the US midterm elections. Chinese

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Weekly market update – week ending 2 November, 2018

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets bounced back over the past week helped by good US earnings results and a lessening of trade war fears

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Weekly market update – week ending 26 October, 2018

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Most major share markets fell over the past week as worries about the global outlook continue. Chinese shares rose though thanks

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Are shares expensive?

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Key points Starting point valuations for shares matter a lot in terms of medium-term return potential and vulnerability to share market falls. Basically, the cheaper the better. Developed market shares

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Weekly market update – week ending 19 October, 2018

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week While share markets had a great bounce from oversold levels early in the last week they fell back to varying degrees

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