Geoff Howie, SGX
Geoff Howie, SGX
20 May 2022
Market View: China banks cut key rate by record to boost ailing economy
On Market View, Prime Time's Bharati Jagdish spoke with Geoff Howie, SGX Market Strategist to make sense of the week’s market sell-off and Chinese banks cutting a key interest rate for long-term loans by a record amount, a move that would reduce mortgage costs and may help counter weak loan demand caused by a property slump and Covid-19 lockdowns. The five-year loan prime rate, a reference for home mortgages, was lowered to 4.45% from 4.6%.
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6 May 2022
Market View Wrap, Week Ending May 6
On Market View Wrap, Claressa Monteiro is joined by Geoff Howie, Market Strategist at the SGX as they discuss if recession is inevitable following the latest Fed's rate hike; with reopening theme ruling for the first four months of the year, what are some of the strong sectors so far; plus the Labor Department's closely watched employment report later today as well as important Fed's addresses next week.
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29 April 2022
Market View Wrap, Week Ending Apr 29
On Market View Wrap of the week as well as for the month of April, Claressa Monteiro is joined by Geoff Howie, Market Strategist, SGX and Finance Presenter JP Ong on his last day at Money FM 89.3, as they crunch the numbers of market movements : starting with the trio of local banks reported first-quarter net profit fell 10 percent, amid market volatility and ongoing concerns over inflation and supply disruptions; which sectors were the most defensive in April; strongest constituent in the STI for the month of April; and what to look out for a short trading week next week.
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1 April 2022
Market View Wrap Week Ending Apr 1
On Market View Wrap, Claressa Monteiro is joined by Geoff Howie, Market Strategist, SGX and JP Ong, Finance Presenter as they round up the first quarter of 2022, how the STI and the region has reacted to the unexpected prolonged Ukraine-Russia war and whether the conflict will continue to set the tone for Q2 and beyond.
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25 March 2022
Market View Wrap Week Ending Mar 25
On Market View Wrap, Claressa Monteiro is joined by Geoff Howie, Market Strategist, SGX and JP Ong, Finance Presenter, as they look at how markets reacted to Singapore's latest safe management measures announcement of lifting most restrictions on Mar 29 - commodities in particular oil prices, aviation sector, namely SIA, SATS, ST Engineering, only counters in the red zone is China stocks due to the spike in infection numbers in its financial hub Shanghai, and what is worth watching out next week, including OPEC meeting next Thursday.
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18 March 2022
Market View Wrap Week Ending Mar 18
On Market View Wrap, Claressa Monteiro is joined by Geoff Howie, Market Strategist, SGX and JP Ong, Finance Presenter on how market performed after the US Fed's rate hike, tech stocks from China's regulatory crackdown and ongoing uncertainty due to the war in Ukraine, which sector performed the strongest this week and the overall outlook.
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11 March 2022
Market View Wrap Week Ending Mar 11
On Market View Wrap, Claressa Monteiro is joined by Geoff Howie, Market Strategist at the SGX and Finance Presenter, JP Ong, as they review the week in market movements : STI's performance compared to the rest of region; 5 stocks in the STI that have average 3% gains this week; Suntec Reits registering the strongest performance in 150 reits across APAC, tech firms led China share rout after SEC hints at de-listings; Fed is not barging on rate hike on Mar 16; the spike in brent crude prices, will it continue to rise?; impacting oil and gas stocks RH Petrogas and Rex in the STI as well as global commodity stocks.
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4 March 2022
Market View Wrap Week Ending 4 Mar
On Market View Wrap, Claressa Monteiro is joined by Geoff Howie, Market Strategist, SGX and Finance Presenter, JP Ong, as they crunch the numbers in the markets this past week with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, where a lot of focus is on commodities, the energy sector and oil prices soaring to a new high. STI showed its resilience amid the volatility of the markets with focus on the trio of local banks, Olam, Wilmar, Maritime businesses, Sembcorp, shipping industries, Yangzijiang, defence stocks like ST Engineering, plus what to expect next week.
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18 February 2022
Market View Wrap Week Ending Feb 18
On Market View Wrap, Claressa Monteiro is joined by Geoff Howie, Market Strategist, SGX and Finance Presenter, JP Ong as they look back at the key factors moving markets, with focus on the STI, the trio of local banks in Singapore, with much anticipation on Budget 2022 announcements, in topics including GST hikes, the move towards digitalisation, what's the impact on various business sectors especially fintech, plus sustainability topics as we go green, such as carbon tax, as well as wealth tax.
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11 February 2022
Market View Wrap Week Ending Feb 11
On Market View Wrap, Claressa Monteiro is joined by Geoff Howie, Market Strategist, SGX and Finance Presenter JP Ong as they take a deep dive into the strong performance of the STI in the Year of the Tiger, discussing how the trio of local banks, reits are performing in view of inflationary concerns and expected Fed's rate hikes, the US yields, stocks performance mention included SIA, tech stocks; institutional inflows into Singapore plus the Budget Speech on Feb 18.
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4 February 2022
Market View Wrap Week Ending 4 Feb
On the first Market View Wrap of the Year of the Tiger and a short trading week, Finance presenter JP Ong and Geoff Howie, Market Strategist, SGX gave a lowdown on how well the STI index is performing thus far and some other sectors that might be worth looking at in the coming weeks.
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28 January 2022
Market View Wrap for Week Ending 28 Jan
On Market View Wrap, Claressa Monteiro is joined by Geoff Howie, Market Strategist at the SGX as he unpacks all the numbers this past week, in the STI, which are the top gainers, FMOC's meeting, inflation figures, Reits reports and what to look forward to for a short week of trading next week in view of the Chinese New Year holidays.
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24 January 2022
Market View, 24 Jan
On Market View, Claressa Monteiro is joined by Geoff Howie, Market Strategist at the SGX as they break down the numbers of the just released CPI of Singapore, the STI, the trio of local banks' performance, Reits's earning reports, who's leading the markets in the region as well as the key focus of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting this week.
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21 January 2022
Market View Wrap, 21 Jan
On Market View, Claressa Monteiro is joined by Geoff Howie, Market Strategist at the SGX as they review the week's market movements - namely SPACs Vertex and Pegasus kicked off their trading on the SGX, factors on why the STI index is nearing 3,300, but not quite yet, commodities performance on the SGX plus a chock-a-block of reports coming out next week, including REITs.
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17 January 2022
Market View, Jan 17
On market view today mid way through January 2022, Claressa Monteiro is joined by Geoff Howie, Market Strategist at the SGX, as they unpack the numbers, looking at STI still going strong, Singapore's latest NODX numbers, Singapore Reits eyeing investments abroad, China's economy growth of 8.1 percent plus the latest buzz, SPACs.
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14 January 2022
Market View Wrap Week Ending Jan 14
On Market View Wrap, Claressa Monteiro is joined by Geoff Howie, Market Strategist, SGX and Finance Presenter, JP Ong as they review the numbers in the region this week, the STI going strong this week, an in depth analysis of local banks' performance since the start of the year so far.
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17 December 2021
Market View Wrap Week Ending Dec 17
On this final episode of Market View Wrap on Workday Afternoon for 2021, Claressa Monteiro is joined by Emelia Tan, Research Analyst, SGX and Finance Presenter, JP Ong as they review the year of market movements : the just announced property cooling measures, health care sectors doing well this year, REITs as well as oil prices.
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10 December 2021
Market View Wrap Week Ending Dec 10
On Market View Wrap, Finance Presenter JP Ong is joined by Geoff Howie, Market Strategist, SGX, as they review the week on the news moving markets, discussing Chinese market slips after Fitch downgrades Evergrande to default, Kaiser is also affected, Sembcorp's announcement of developing renewable energy projects in Vietnam, real estate and hospitality sectors plus what to look ahead next week.
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3 December 2021
Market View Wrap Week Ending 3 Dec
On Market View Wrap, Finance presenter, JP Ong and Geoff Howie, Market Strategist, SGX, gave a lowdown of the market movements in Singapore as well as the region, with focus on property developers, hospitality, the local banks as well as a host of important numbers to look out for next week, including news from the Fed Reserve.
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19 November 2021
Market View Wrap Week Ending Nov 19
On Market View Wrap, Claressa Monteiro is joined by Geoff Howie, Market Strategist, SGX and Finance Presenter, JP Ong as they review the past week's market movements, the STI, how the local banks have performed, as well as a lookahead to important data next week, the Consumer Price Index, Gross Domestic Product and the Industrial Production Index.
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19 November 2021
Market View Wrap Week Ending Nov 19
On Market View Wrap, Claressa Monteiro is joined by Geoff Howie, Market Strategist, SGX and Finance Presenter, JP Ong as they review the past week's market movements, the STI, how the local banks have performed, as well as a lookahead to important data next week, the Consumer Price Index, Gross Domestic Product and the Industrial Production Index.
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12 November 2021
Market View Wrap Week Ending 12 Nov
On Market View Wrap this week, Claressa Monteiro is joined by Geoff Howie, Market Strategist, SGX and Finance Presenter, JP Ong, as they review the highs and lows in market movements in the region, the STI performance, the insights of SPH receiving a new offer from Keppel Corp, trio of SG banks' focus for the rest of the year, Singtel H1 report jumping nearly 105%, transportation sector in focus, namely ComfortDelGro and SIA, plus what to look ahead next week.
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15 October 2021
Market View Wrap Week Ending 15 Oct
On Market View Wrap, Claressa Monteiro is joined by Geoff Howie, Market Strategist, SGX and Finance Presenter, JP Ong as they take a deep dive into market movements in Singapore and the region, the impact of the Monetary Authority of Singapore's unexpected move to tighten policy, stocks that gained following the announcement of new countries added to the VTL list, oil and energy prices as well as what to look ahead next week.
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8 October 2021
Market View Wrap Week Ending 8 Oct
On Market View Wrap, Claressa Monteiro is joined by Geoff Howie, Market Strategist, SGX and Finance Presenter, JP Ong as they looked back at what moved markets this past week, with the latest announcement by the U.S. Senate approving a legislation to temporarily raise the federal government's $28.4 trillion US dollar debt limit to avoid the risk of an historic default this month, and in Washington, our Minister for Trade and Industry Gan Kim Yong spoke of opening a vaccinated travel lane with the US as soon as possible and certainly by the end of the year, what's the impact on stocks in the aviation sector, as well as energy stocks in view of the coal crunch in China, plus what to look ahead next week.
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1 October 2021
Market View Wrap Week Ending 1 Oct
On Market View Wrap, Claressa Monteiro is joined by Geoff Howie, Market Strategist, SGX and Finance Presenter, JP Ong as they take a look at quarterly standouts from Q3 2021, as well as what to look ahead in the markets.
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24 September 2021
Market View Wrap Week Ending Sep 24
On this Market View Wrap of the week as well as the month of September, Claressa Monteiro is joined by Geoff Howie, Market Strategist, SGX and Finance Presenter, JP Ong as they wrapped up the market movements for the week, an in depth look at the troubled Chinese developer Evergrande, Fed signals bond-buying taper coming 'soon,' and rate hike next year, plus what to look out for next week as well as the month of October.
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17 September 2021
Market View Wrap Week Ending Sep 17
On Market View Wrap, Claressa Monteiro is joined by Geoff Howie, Market Strategist, SGX and Finance Presenter, JP Ong as they gave a round out of the market movements this past week, the new announcement by Singapore government on a series of initiatives to boost the local stock market with a new billion dollar fund, how will the introduction of SPACS and this new fund make a difference to IPOs in the tech sector, data from China also added uncertainty to the trading week and much more.
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10 September 2021
Market View Wrap Week Ending 10 Sep
On Market View Wrap, Claressa Monteiro is joined by Geoff Howie, Market Strategist, SGX and Finance Presenter, who gave a lowdown on market movements this past week - the sectors that performed well and the laggards. The trio also discussed at length the mixed fortunes of Hongkongland USD and Evergrande, plus what to look ahead in the coming week.
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3 September 2021
Market View Wrap Week Ending Sep 3
On the first Market View Wrap of September, Claressa Monteiro is joined by Geoff Howie, Market Strategist, SGX and Finance Presenter, JP Ong, as they look at the highlights of the market movements in the month of August, with special mention of 11 of Singapore's smaller Reits making it into the FTSE EPRA Nareit Global Real Estate Index series, Agri-business giant Olam International has secured S$7 billion worth of loans in part to support its business reorganisation plans, as well as the Singapore Exchange becoming the first major bourse in Asia to offer SPAC listings.
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23 August 2021
Market View August 23
In Market View, Claressa Monteiro is joined by Geoff Howie, Market Strategist from the SGX as they discuss the STI, stocks in the aviation sector following Singapore's announcement of lifting some border restrictions, some key events this week including the Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium annual event from Thursday through Saturday.
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20 August 2021
Market View Wrap Week Ending Aug 20
In Market View Wrap, Claressa Monteiro is joined by Geoff Howie, Market Strategist from the SGX and Finance Presenter JP Ong, as they reviewed the past week in Asian markets, with focus on STI, SATS, SIA, Nanofilm, the impact of Delta variant on oil prices, commodities, hospitality trusts, US employment figures, Fed tapers and what to expect with the easing of restrictions in Singapore.
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30 July 2021
Market View Wrap Week Ending July 30
On Market View Wrap, Claressa Monteiro, JP Ong and Geoff Howie, SGX Market Strategist discuss local markets gaining vis a vis the rest of the region, banking and manufacturing stocks, dividend plays and small to midcaps getting more interesting versus blue chips.
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23 July 2021
Market View Wrap Week Ending Jul 23
In Market View Wrap, Finance Presenter JP Ong is joined by Geoff Howie, Market Strategist from the SGX, as they provide an overview of what's moving markets this past week, looking at the STI, investors' sentiment with the reinstated heightened alert measures for another month in Singapore, decent and positive report cards from big companies, eg Sabana Reits, ESR Reits, Tech stocks, AEM, Nanoflim, and what to look for next week.
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16 July 2021
Market View Wrap Week Ending Jul 15
In Market View Wrap, Shehzad Haque is joined by Geoff Howie, Market Strategist from the SGX and Finance Presenter JP Ong, as they review market movements this past week with focus on the STI index where traders showed a hint of caution with thin trading appetite, SG and HK stocks standing out in the region, inflationary pressures rearing its ugly head, what to make out of the GDP figures released in SG, China, the rise of Delta variant infections in the region eg Tokyo, Victoria, KTC cluster in SG, the big movers this week is in the commodity resource sector and many more.
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9 July 2021
Market View Wrap Week Ending Jul 9
In Market View Wrap, Claressa Monteiro is joined by Geoff Howie, Market Strategist from the SGX and Finance Presenter JP Ong, as they took a deep dive into the STI movements this past week, REITS being the strongest performer globally this week, bank stocks' performance at start of the second half of 2021, investors' sentiments with Singapore's easing of restrictions on Jul 12, virus spikes in APAC region plus what to look ahead including the Singapore and China GDP reports.
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2 July 2021
Market View Wrap Week Ending Jul 2
In Market View Wrap, Claressa Monteiro is joined by Geoff Howie, Market Strategist from the SGX and Finance Presenter JP Ong, as they took a deep dive into market movements in the region, why China's shares dropped after Chinese Communist Party's 100th anniversary celebrations, the stocks that did well this week, in particular tech stocks, China's ambition in the green and sustainability industry, two key numbers for investors to look out for tonight and mull over the weekend - US jobs report, unemployment rate, June PMI figures.
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28 June 2021
Market View Jun 28
In Market View Minutes, Claressa Monteiro is joined by Geoff Howie, Market Strategist from the SGX, as they take a deep dive into how will the spike in Covid-19 cases in the region affect investors' sentiment, what to expect from CapitaLand divesting its partial stakes in six of its Raffles City developments in China, why did Sembcorp and Keppel Corp shares go in opposite directions following the MOU announcement, what to look ahead in 2 PMI manufacturing reports from China expected this week, as well as the SGX ETFs this Thursday.
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25 June 2021
Market View Wrap Week Ending Jun 25
In Market View Wrap, Claressa Monteiro is joined by Geoff Howie, Market Strategist from the SGX and Finance Presenter JP Ong, as they took a deep dive into market movements in the region, the impact of the announcement of Sembcorp Marine and Keppel Corp inking a MOU to explore a merger, more from the Federal Open Market Committee report on Jun 16, rate increase in 2022 and the yield curve as well as oil prices and OPEC talk.
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11 June 2021
Market View Wrap Week Ending Jun 11
In Market View Wrap, Claressa Monteiro is joined by Geoff Howie, Market Strategist from the SGX and Finance Presenter JP Ong, as they took a deep dive into market movements in the region, how did STI do with the announcement of easing of Heightened Alert (Phase 2) restrictions, reactions to the start-stop reopening for travel vs vaccination, some of the top stocks eg Wing Tai, Hong Leong, Top Glove, as well as what to look out for next week.
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4 June 2021
Market View Wrap Week Ending Jun 4
In Market View Wrap, Claressa Monteiro is joined by Geoff Howie, Market Strategist from the SGX and Finance Presenter JP Ong, what to expect in the STI in the next few months, Singapore's latest PMI and outlook in view of the Phase 2 heightened alert measures, what to expect at the upcoming US jobs data report, outlook of second half of 2021 as people grow to adapt to the endemic, plus what stocks to lookout for next week.
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28 May 2021
Market View Wrap Week Ending May 28
In Market View, Claressa Monteiro is joined by Geoff Howie, Market Strategist from the SGX, as they take a deep dive into the STI, bank stocks, Singtel stocks, impact on the stock market brought about by companies restructuring due to the pandemic, what investors look for as global vaccine rollout pick up, transport stocks eg SATS and SIA and many more.
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24 May 2021
Market View May 24
In Market View Wrap, Claressa Monteiro is joined by Geoff Howie, Market Strategist from the SGX, as they took a deep dive into the STI, starting the week in the green, CPI numbers for April, upcoming Singapore GDP and Industrial reports as well as investors' sentiments towards global Covid-19 cases coming down and increased vaccinations, plus many more.
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9 April 2021
Market View Wrap Week Ending Apr 9
In Market View Wrap, Claressa Monteiro is joined by Geoff Howie, Strategic Market Analyst from the SGX and Finance Presenter JP Ong who provide a summary of the trading week with focus on STI second and third liners, home prices in Australia, inflation in China, vaccination rollout in Singapore as well as globally and many more.
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12 March 2021
Market View Wrap Week ending Mar 12
In our Market View Wrap for end of this week, Claressa Monteiro speaks to our Finance Presenter JP Ong ad Market Strategist, Singapore Exchange, Geoff Howie, on overnight broad-based gains, which was led by technology, commodity and real estate stocks, and the focus on manufacturing reports across Asia, and then in Europe
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26 February 2021
Market View Wrap Week Ending Feb 26
In our Market View Wrap for end of this week, and end of the month of February, Claressa Monteiro speaks to our Finance Presenter JP Ong ad Market Strategist, SGX, Geoff Howie, on what to look out for in the month of March and beyond.
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5 February 2021
Market View Wrap Week Ending Feb 5
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29 January 2021
Market View Wrap Week Ending Jan 29
In Market View Wrap, Geoff Howie, Strategic Market Analyst at the SGX join Finance JP Ong and Claressa Monteiro to take a look at the ups and downs of the first month of January in 2021.
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22 January 2021
Market View Wrap week ending Jan 22
In Market View Wrap, Geoff Howie, Strategic Market Analyst at the SGX join Finance JP Ong and Claressa Monteiro to discuss the week we’ve had and what’s ahead of us in the week to come.
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15 January 2021
Market View Wrap Week Ending Jan 15
On Market View Wrap, Claressa Monteiro discusses the week's moves in the Singapore stock market with Finance Presenter JP Ong and Geoff Howie, Strategic Market Analyst, SGX. They discuss the proposed stimulus package announced by President-Elect Joe Biden, the STI crossing the 3000 point phycological threshold, the economic data to be released and what it might mean for markets in the weeks ahead
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8 January 2021
MARKET VIEW WRAP: Week ending Jan 8
On Market View Wrap, Claressa Monteiro discusses the week's moves in the Singapore stock market with Finance Presenter JP Ong and Geoff Howie, Strategic Market Analyst, SGX and explores what developments in the US including the Georgia Run off election results might mean for markets in the weeks ahead.
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