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The past week has been characterised by heightened volatility and risk-off sentiment across global markets, with investors grappling with a unique combination of data uncertainty, inflation concerns, and mounting nervousness ahead of key corporate earnings. The NASDAQ and Russell 2000 have been particularly volatile although other developed markets like Japan, Europe and Australia have ended up in a similar place, around 5% down. Emerging markets and global small companies outside the U.S. were more resilient.

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Markets ended last week on the back foot as investors became concerned about the extent of AI capex and high U.S. equity valuations before making up all that lost ground on progress of an end to the U.S. Government shutdown.     

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Global markets experienced significant volatility over the past week as investors grappled with shifting central bank narratives, record tech valuations, and evolving trade dynamics between the world's largest economies.

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Global markets entered a pivotal week with technology stocks leading gains ahead of crucial earnings reports, even as consumer confidence deteriorated and geopolitical tensions persisted across multiple fronts.

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Markets steadied last week despite U.S.–China trade tensions and a government data blackout. The real drama came from gold and silver, which soared to record highs before crashing in their biggest one-day fall since 2020. In Australia, a surprise rise in unemployment shifted expectations toward an RBA rate cut, while U.S. regional banks faced renewed credit concerns. Central banks are diverging globally, with the Fed leaning dovish, Canada wrestling with inflation, and Japan’s new leadership signaling policy change.

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Global markets experienced significant volatility over the past week as investors grappled with escalating US-China trade tensions, an extended U.S. government shutdown and diverging central bank policies across major economies.

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Markets faced an unusual challenge last week as the U.S. government shutdown entered its seventh day, leaving investors to navigate without key economic data while political instability in Japan and France added to global uncertainty.

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The final week of September 2025 delivered a complex tapestry of market movements, with investors grappling with sticky inflation data, geopolitical tensions, and the looming specter of a U.S. government shutdown.

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Global markets experienced a slight uptick in volatility overnight but until then the relentless rise of markets had continued their relentless rise.

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Global markets spent the past week positioning for an increasingly certain Federal Reserve rate cut, though conviction about the magnitude and pace of easing began to waver as stronger U.S. economic data emerged mid-week.

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