Weekly market update – week ending 9 September, 2016

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Global share markets were mostly up over the last week but Australian shares fell slightly. Mixed US data, the ongoing soap

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Weekly market update – week ending 2 September, 2016

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week While Japanese shares rose solidly over the last week helped by talk of more monetary easing and a fall in the

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Weekly market update – week ending 26 August, 2016

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week While Eurozone shares rose 1.2% over the last week US shares fell 0.7%, Australian shares lost 0.2%, Japanese shares fell 1.1%

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Weekly market update – week ending 19 August, 2016

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Shares were mixed over the last week with European, Japanese and Australian shares down but US and Chinese shares up. Bond

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The constrained medium term return outlook

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Key points Low and falling investment yields from most major asset classes point to a constrained medium term return outlook. For a diversified mix of assets, this has now fallen

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Weekly market update – week ending 12 August, 2016

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Shares moved higher again over the last week with US shares hitting new record highs, Eurozone shares hitting their highest since

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Weekly market update – week ending 5 August, 2016

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets mostly pulled back over the last week. Profit taking after the strong gains seen in July were part of

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Weekly market update – week ending 22 July, 2016

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week It’s now four weeks since the Brexit panic on June 24 and since then US and European shares are up 6%,

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RBA: Inflation to decide on rate cut

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Reserve Bank Board minutes; Consumer confidence Reserve Bank Board minutes: “The Board noted that further information on inflationary pressures, the labour market and housing market activity would be available over

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Weekly market update – week ending July 15, 2016

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week It has been “risk on” again over the last week in investment markets helped by a combination of good economic data

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