Lacking the kind of economic data or central bank decisions that have moved asset prices recently, markets mostly drifted sideways or slightly lower during the week. As a result, most asset classes have been able to hang onto their recent gains. This rally has now lasted for two months, having been initially triggered by the expectation, subsequently proved correct, that central banks would slow the rate of increases in interest rates. That presumed a peak in the rate of inflation - which duly occurred, giving the rally yet more impetus...

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