Weekly market update – week ending 5 February, 2016

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week The past week has seen most share markets give up much or all of their Fed and Bank of Japan inspired

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08 Feb 2016

Weekly market update – week ending 29 January, 2016

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week The past week has been rather messy. On the one hand global growth fears remain with US and Eurozone shares falling

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01 Feb 2016

Weekly market update – week ending 22 January, 2016

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week It’s been another volatile week in financial markets as investors continue to fret about the global growth outlook. Share markets remained

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25 Jan 2016

Weekly market update – week ending 15 January, 2015

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week It’s been more of the same over the last week with worries about China, global growth and falling commodity prices led

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18 Jan 2016

A rough start to the year, which could have further to go

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Key points Financial markets have started the year on a rough note as last year’s worries about China and global growth in the face of US monetary tightening continue. This

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14 Jan 2016

Weekly market update – week ending 4 December, 2015

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week The past week was dominated by worries about the Fed hiking rates later this month against a background of mixed economic

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07 Dec 2015

RBA chilled out as expected

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RBA leaves rates at 2%, but retains an easing bias The decision by the RBA to leave interest rates on hold at 2% provided no surprises. The post meeting statement

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03 Dec 2015

Weekly market update – week ending 27 November, 2015

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week The past week was mixed for shares with Eurozone shares up on good economic data and expectations for further ECB easing,

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30 Nov 2015

Weekly market update – week ending 20 November, 2015

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets bounced back over the last week helped along by a combination of okay earnings news in the US and

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23 Nov 2015

Weekly market update – week ending 13 November, 2015

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week The past week has seen shares under pressure again as worries about a Fed rate hike next month driving the $US

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16 Nov 2015