Weekly market update – week ending 17 June, 2016

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The past week has been dominated by Brexit worries which pushed down most share markets and combined with a very dovish US Federal Reserve pushed bond yields down as well.

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20 Jun 2016

Weekly market update – week ending 10 June, 2016

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Shares were mixed over the last week. While US shares pushed higher to within 1% of an all-time high on Fed

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14 Jun 2016

Where are we in the roller coaster of investor emotion?

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Key points At extremes the investment crowd is invariably wrong. Everyone who wants to buy will have done so and the only way is down (or vice versa in crowd

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09 Jun 2016

Weekly market update – week ending 3 June, 2016

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Shares were mixed over the last week with US and Chinese shares up, but renewed Brexit fears weighing on Eurozone shares, disappointment at the lack of fiscal easing just yet

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06 Jun 2016

Weekly market update – week ending 27 May, 2016

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Most share markets had a good week helped by improved confidence regarding US growth, increasing signs that the global oil market

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30 May 2016

Weekly market update – week ending May 20, 2016

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets were constrained over the past week by renewed talk of Fed tightening with US, European and Chinese shares falling.

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23 May 2016

RBA rate cuts, inflation targets, deflation and are central banks out of ammo?

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Key points The RBA eased this month because actual inflation has fallen below target and is likely to stay there for a while. Cutting inflation targets would be foolish and make

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20 May 2016

Weekly market update – week ending 13 May, 2016

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Despite ongoing global growth fears and mixed earnings news, share markets in the US, Japan and Australia gained over the last

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16 May 2016

Weekly market update, week ending 22 April, 2016

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets mostly continued to move higher over the last week as growth fears from earlier this year continued to recede

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26 Apr 2016

Weekly market update – week ending 15 April, 2016

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets pushed higher over the last week helped by a combination of better than feared US earnings results, good economic

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18 Apr 2016