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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets continued to recover over the past week as quantitative easing (QE) ended in the US uneventfully and US profits and economic data continued to impress. In addition, Japan announced a significant expansion in its QE program and that its Government pension fund would double its share exposure. News out of the Eurozone was a bit better than expected. US shares rose 2.7% to a new record high, European shares rose [...]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets continued to recover from their recent falls helped by good earnings news in the US, better-than-expected economic data in Europe, China and Japan and as the European Central Bank (ECB) started up its quantitative easing program with indications that it might be widened. Global and Australian share markets have roughly recovered half the fall they saw in the correction, with the Australian share market also being helped by investors taking advantage [...]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week Global shares had another rough week on worries about global growth and as the Ebola scare continued to build. Despite a rally in US and European shares on Friday most share markets fell with US shares down 1% for the week, European shares down 0.8%, Japanese shares down 6.1% and Chinese shares down 1.4%. However, Australian shares having led on the way down, managed to rise over the last week as investors [...]

        Investment markets and key developments over the past week The correction in shares continued over the last week. While dovish minutes from the US Federal Reserve’s (Fed) last meeting provided mid-week support it was short lived as nervousness about growth in Europe and the broader global growth outlook, along with worries about the ending of the Fed’s third round of quantitative easing (QE3) later this month and Ebola weighed. This saw most share markets fall with US [...]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week Despite a bounce on Friday in US and European shares, global share markets had a rough week as they were weighed down by worries about the US Federal Reserve (Fed), tough action against US companies seeking to reduce their tax by relocating outside the US, worries about Chinese growth, geopolitical concerns and worries about the loss of breadth in the US share market rally. US shares fell -1.4%, Eurozone shares fell -1.9% [...]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week Global share markets mostly rose over the last week helped by indications from the Fed that it’s still in no hurry to raise interest rates, expectations that the ECB might have to provide more stimulus, the Scottish No vote removing risks over UK assets and the continuing slide in the Yen to a six year low providing a boost to Japanese shares. US shares rose 1.3%, Eurozone shares gained 0.9% and Japanese [...]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets mostly pulled back over the last week as worries about the US Federal Reserve (Fed), talk of tougher capital requirements for US banks and new trade sanctions over the Ukraine weighed. Japanese shares were an exception globally with the fall in the yen to a six-year low boosting confidence. US shares fell 1.1%, Eurozone shares fell 1.2%, Chinese shares rose 0.2% and Japanese shares rose 1.8%. Australian shares fell 1.2% on [...]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week Global share markets rose over the last week. Eurozone shares were up +3.2% given the European Central Bank’s (ECB) monetary easing and news of a ceasefire in Ukraine. Shares in Japan were up +1.6% and Chinese shares were up +4.9%. US shares rose modestly (+0.2%) as a softer than expected jobs report allayed fears of an earlier US Federal Reserve (Fed) rate hike. Bond yields generally rose, but yields in peripheral Eurozone [...]