Weekly market update – week ending 23 January, 2015

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets had a good week driven by a strong quantitative easing (QE) program from the ECB along with good US

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27 Jan 2015

The threat of global deflation

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Introduction While a constant concern since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) has been that easy monetary policies would cause surging inflation it simply hasn’t occurred. The absence of inflationary pressures

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22 Jan 2015

Weekly market update – Week ending Friday 16 January, 2015

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week The “risk off” tone in markets continued over the past week with mixed US economic data and earnings results along with

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19 Jan 2015

2015 – a list of lists regarding the macro investment outlook

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Introduction 2014 saw good returns for diversified investors as the global economy continued to grow and monetary conditions remained easy, but a combination of uneven global growth, worries about deflation,

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16 Jan 2015

Weekly market & economic update – week ending 9 January, 2015

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Shares have had a rough start to the year, but have managed to recover most or all of their initial losses

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12 Jan 2015

Weekly market & economic update – week ending 5 December, 2014

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Shares mostly rose last week helped by good US economic data and a stabilisation in energy shares after their plunge the week

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08 Dec 2014

Review of 2014, outlook for 2015

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Key points 2014 has been a positive but somewhat constrained and messy year for investors as the global economy remained in a cyclical “sweet spot” despite various threats, but Australian

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05 Dec 2014

Weekly market & economic update – week ending 28 November, 2014

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Shares generally had a good week helped by mostly good economic data and as the Chinese easing and expectations for more

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01 Dec 2014

Weekly market & economic update – week ending 21 November, 2014

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Shares were mixed over the last week with US shares pushed to record highs on good data and European shares up,

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24 Nov 2014

Weekly market & economic update – week ending 14 November, 2014

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Shares were mixed over the last week with Japanese shares up on prospects for a delay in the next sales tax

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17 Nov 2014