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

From Shane Oliver - AMP chief economist

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

From Shane Oliver - AMP chief economist

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

From Shane Oliver - AMP chief economist

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

From Shane Oliver - AMP chief economist

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

From Shane Oliver - AMP chief economist

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

From Shane Oliver - AMP chief economist

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

Weekly market & economic update – week ending 7 November, 2014

From Shane Oliver - AMP chief economist

Investment markets and key developments over the past week While tensions regarding Ukraine saw shares dip and safe haven assets like bonds and gold rally early in the week, this

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10 Nov 2014

Worsening trade balance and slower jobs growth but solid retail sales

From Shane Oliver - AMP chief economist

Yesterday’s economic data like much of that already seen this week presents a mixed picture on the economy. In brief: Revised ABS jobs data up to September (designed to correct for

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05 Nov 2014

Weekly market & economic update – week ending October 31, 2014

From Shane Oliver - AMP chief economist

Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets continued to recover over the past week as QE3 ended in the US uneventfully, US profits and economic data

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03 Nov 2014

Weekly market & economic update – week ending 24 October, 2014

From Shane Oliver - AMP chief economist

Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets continue to recover from their recent falls helped by a combination of good earnings news in the US, better

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27 Oct 2014

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