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What made financial headlines over the weekend?

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The end of the bond bull market? Open banking? The new bitcoin? Here's our weekly heads-up on the financial stories that may have caught your clients' attention over the weekend …

A 35-year bull market is ending: this is how all your investments will be affected Investors should beware the ending of the current three-decades-plus bond bull market, warns this Telegraph piece, because bonds act as a benchmark for financial assets. It goes on to explain that price movements in fixed income assets affect other assets and so investors should look beyond the bond market itself. "The single most important driver of all investment prices and returns is the yield on American government bonds," says Jupiter Asset Management fund manager James Clunie. "There has been a 35-...

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