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 5 September, 2014

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets were mixed over the last week with Eurozone shares up on the ECB’s monetary easing and talk of a

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Weekly market & economic update – week ending 17 October

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Key events of the past week and implications The past week has seen shares and growth related trades rally strongly as the US budget crisis came to an end. As

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The threat of inflation in Asian & emerging markets

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Key points Rising inflation is becoming a major concern in Asia and other emerging countries. So far it’s largely due to higher food prices. Non-food inflation remains reasonably benign. However,

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Weekly market & economic update – 21 January 2011

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Headline developments An acceleration in Chinese economic growth in the December quarter to an estimated annualised pace of around 12% along with ongoing inflation worries have reinforced the case for

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Weekly market & economic update – November 19 2010

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Headline developments of the past week Worries about Europe’s debt problems and tightening in China were again key issues for investors over the last week, and had the effect of

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Weekly market & economic update – 12 November 2010

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Headline developments of the past week Shares, commodities and commodity currencies like the Australian dollar have had a tough week partly on renewed European debt concerns and worries that further

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Weekly Market & Economic Update, 15 October 2010

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Headline developments of the past week After 28 years in the dogbox on the back of falling commodity prices and poor economic management the Australian dollar spiked above parity against

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