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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets were mixed over the last week, with US shares down 1% on the back of some soft US earnings reports and nervousness ahead of a likely US Federal Reserve (Fed) rate hike in December, Australian shares down 0.6%, Japanese shares basically flat, Eurozone shares up 0.8% and Chinese shares up 1.6%. Bond yields rose, oil prices rose but metal prices fell, and the A$ rose despite a stronger US$. Seven [...]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week Shares were mixed over the last week with US shares down 0.7% and Eurozone shares down 0.1%, but Japanese shares up 2.5% and Australian shares up 0.6%. Bond yields rebounded on European Central Bank taper talk and increasing expectations for a December US Federal Reserve rate hike. As a result of the latter the US$ rose and appears to be breaking higher which pushed the A$ lower. This was despite a further [...]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week Shares had a volatile week, with support from higher oil prices but volatility in banks led by concerns around Deutsche Bank. Eurozone shares lost 0.8%, Japanese shares lost 2.0% and Chinese shares fell 0.7% but Australian shares rose 0.1% and US shares staged a late recovery (on reports that Deutsche Bank may pay a lower US fine than feared) to end up 0.2%. Bond yields fell and commodity prices were little changed, [...]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week With central bank announcements from the Bank of Japan (BoJ) and the US Federal Reserve (Fed) out of the way and benign, share markets rose over the last week, bond yields fell, commodity prices rallied and the US dollar fell. US shares rose 1.2%, Eurozone shares gained 3.1%, Japanese shares rose 1.4%, Chinese shares gained 1.1% and Australian shares rose 2.5%. With the US$ down and "risk on" the A$ rose above [...]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week While the US share market rose 0.5% over the past week to recover some of its loss from the previous week as fears of an imminent US Federal Reserve (Fed) rate-hike declined, other major share markets fell as they caught up to the earlier fall in US shares. Eurozone shares fell 3.1% (not helped by a US Department of Justice claim against Deutsche Bank), Japanese shares fell 2.6%, Chinese shares lost 2.4% [...]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week While Japanese shares (up 0.2%) and Chinese shares (up 0.1%) managed small gains over the last week, a further rise in bond yields on Friday on the back of more hawkish comments from the US Federal Reserve (Fed) and following the absence of further easing by the ECB saw Eurozone shares fall 1% and US shares fall 2.4% for the week. A sharp rise in Australian bond yields also helped drag down [...]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week Global shares rose solidly over the last week with Japanese shares up 3.5% helped by talk of more monetary easing and a fall in the yen, eurozone shares gained 1.9%, US shares rose 0.5% helped by a benign jobs report and Chinese shares rose 0.2%. Australian shares lost 2.6% though as the earnings reporting season came to an end. Bond yields fell in the US, were unchanged in Australia but rose in [...]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week While Eurozone shares rose 1.2% over the last week, US shares fell 0.7%, Australian shares lost 0.2%, Japanese shares fell 1.1% and Chinese shares fell 1.7%. A ramping up of expectations of a Fed rate hike, reinforced by comments from Fed Chair Janet Yellen and Vice Chair Stanley Fischer, and downwards pressure on defensive shares, weighed on the US share market. Concerns about regulatory controls of interbank lending and property weighed on [...]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week Shares moved higher again over the last week with the US market hitting new record highs (albeit up just 0.1% for the week), eurozone shares rising 2.4% to their highest since May, Japanese shares up 4.1%, Chinese shares up 2.8% and Australian shares up 0.6%. Bond yields mostly fell, as investors remain unconvinced that the US Federal Reserve (Fed) is any closer to raising interest rates again. Commodity prices were mixed, with [...]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week Shares were mixed over the last week. A bit of profit taking after the strong gains seen in July, Japan's disappointing stimulus plans and continuing worries about eurozone banks saw Japanese shares fall 1.9%, Australian shares fall 1.2% and Eurozone shares fall 0.4%. But a strong US payroll report on Friday pushed the US share market up 0.4% for the week to a new record high and UK shares rose 1% helped [...]