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Investment markets and key developments over the past week While Chinese shares fell 0.4% over the last week, US shares rose 0.9%, boosted by retailers and oil shares, Eurozone shares also gained 0.9%, Japanese shares rose 0.7% and Australian shares rose 0.4%. Bond yields were flat to down, helped by ongoing concerns about low inflation in the US and this also weighed on the US$. Commodity prices rose, and this, along with a weaker US$ and a reiteration of Reserve Bank of [...]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week While Chinese shares rose 0.2% over the last week, US shares fell 0.1%, Eurozone shares fell 1.1%, Japanese shares lost 1.3% and Australian shares fell 1.2% with a bit of profit taking. Bond yields fell slightly as inflation news remained weak. While gold and copper prices rose slightly, iron ore was flat and the oil price fell slightly. Although the US$ slipped back a bit the A$ fell as weaker than expected wages [...]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets were mixed over the last week with US shares down 0.2%, not helped by tax reform uncertainty and Eurozone shares down 2.3%. Conversely, Japanese shares were hit by profit-taking but still managed a 0.6% rise while Chinese shares rose by 3% and Australian shares were up 1.2%. Bond yields rose with the exception of Japan. Oil, gold and iron ore prices rose but copper prices fell. The US dollar fell back [...]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week While Chinese shares fell 0.7% over the last week, US shares gained 0.3%, Eurozone shares rose 1.1%, Japanese shares gained 2.4% and Australian shares rose 1% helped by a combination of good global economic growth and earnings news. The Australian stock exchange All Ordinaries Index even managed to push above the 6,000 level for the first time since early 2008. Bond yields declined on the back of President Trump's nomination of Jerome Powell [...]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week Global share markets rose over last week, boosted by solid earnings and economic data. US shares rose 0.2% with strong gains in tech stocks, Eurozone shares gained 1.2% helped by a dovish European Central Bank (ECB), Japanese shares rose 2.6% as Abenomics continues following the Japanese election and Chinese shares gained 2.4%. Australian shares fell 0.1%, as the market was impacted by political uncertainty at the end of the week after the High [...]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets mostly rose over the last week helped along by continuing good economic data. US shares gained 0.9% boosted by progress towards tax reform, Japanese shares rose 1.4%, Chinese shares rose 0.2% and Australian shares gained 1.6%. Eurozone shares were flat though with Spanish shares slipping as the Spanish Government looks to be moving towards taking over the Government of Catalan. Australian shares are continuing to play catch up after underperforming significantly [...]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week While Eurozone shares were flat over the past week and US shares only rose 0.2% (with good data offset by uncertainty about tax reform and President Trump's end to Obamacare related health insurance subsidies acting as constraints), Japanese shares rose 2.2%, Chinese shares rose 2.2% and Australian shares had a good 1.8% rebound from the bottom of the range they have been in for the last few months. Bond yields fell in the [...]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week Despite uncertainty about who will chair the Fed and tax reform in the US, 59 shot dead and over 500 injured in another terrible US mass shooting in Las Vegas, a political crisis in Spain and the ongoing issue around North Korea, global share markets continued to climb the classic wall of worry over the last week. Why? Put simply the global economy is looking stronger and stronger and this is driving profits, [...]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week Global share markets pushed higher over the last week as solid economic data and ongoing talk of US tax reform more than offset continuing North Korea worries. US shares rose 0.7%, Eurozone shares gained 1.3% and Japanese shares rose 0.3%. Chinese and Australian shares were flat though. Bond yields generally rose but commodity prices were mixed with oil and copper up but gold and iron ore down. The A$ fell, reflecting a stronger [...]