Investment markets and key developments over the past week

Share markets had a mixed ride over the last week, not helped by renewed weakness in Chinese shares early in the week. However, this was offset to a greater or lesser degree depending on the market by good US earnings results, a benign US Federal Reserve and good data in Europe. While Chinese shares fell 10% over the week, Eurozone shares only lost 0.1% and Japanese shares rose 0.2%, US shares rose 1.2% and Australian shares gained 2.4%. Read the full weekly market wrap here: (VIEW LINK)