Weekly market & economic update – week ending 10 October, 2014

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week The correction in shares continued over the last week. While dovish minutes from the Fed’s last meeting provided mid-week support it

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Weekly market & economic update – week ending 26 September, 2014

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets had a rough week weighed down by a combination of worries about the Fed, tough action against US companies

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Weekly market & economic update – week ending July 25, 2014

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 Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets rose on mostly good economic data, continued solid earnings results in the US and an absence of additional bad

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Weekly market & economic update – week ending 11 July, 2014

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets retreated over the last week on worries that problems at some European banks might spark a return of its

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Weekly market & economic update – week ending 20 June, 2014

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Global share markets generally rebounded over the last week as a dovish Fed and  solid economic data offset continuing uncertainty regarding

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Five ways investors can ride the QE3 stimulus

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“This is a watershed moment for markets,” says Tom Stevenson, Investment Director at Fidelity Worldwide Investment. “The third slug of monetary stimulus from the US Federal Reserve Bank came just

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Is it time to invest against the tide?

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The idea of a “V”-shaped stock market recovery was fuelled by expectations of a “V”-shaped economic recovery. This was not an unreasonable assumption based on the shape of previous recoveries

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