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Hey team, hope everyone is well. Let's talk about last week across financial markets, then let's turn our attention to what's coming up in the week ahead. Bit of a shorter episode this week. I've been away all weekend uh with kids sport tournaments, so don't have access to all my usual systems, uh being away from home and uh haven't been in the office at all like I normally would uh to put all this together. So no formal report and A bit of an abbreviated version, but always keen to keep you guys as informed as possible. So let's talk a little bit anyway. It was mostly a good week for global share markets. We saw most markets perform well. Crude oil in the US fell from more than $100 a barrel to about US $92 by the end of the week.
So that's a positive. However, we still have high tech. In the Middle East, still haven't seen any resolution there, and global bond yields, which is one of the other things that markets have been a bit worried about, have kept pushing higher. But despite that, the SP 500 in the US was up 1.2%. That was its first positive week in three. Europe and Japan were up 0.8% and 0.9%, respectively. UK was up 0.3% and emerging market shares gained 1.3%. So gains across the board from global markets closer to home, a little bit more of a mixed bag. We saw the Australian market fall 0.8%, while here in New Zealand the NZX50 was up half a percent. The US 10-year treasury yield finished the week 16 basis points higher, so finished at 5.16%.
During the week it hit its highest level since 2007. And if you look back to that period, I think the 10-year got to about 5.3%, maybe maybe a little higher than that, which was the highest we'd seen since June 2004. Similar story here in New Zealand with uh the two-year swap rate higher, the five-year swap rate higher, those are wholesale market interest rates. Uh, the five Year was up about 14 basis points, so finished at just a little below 4.5%. So interest rates on the rise everywhere. If we look back at some of the key releases last week, and there were two things that I was watching. The first one will get that out of the way pretty quickly because not a lot happened. Uh, Trump and Z from China both met in Washington DC.
I didn't think there was a lot that came out of the Meeting, there are a lot of headlines, but not a whole lot of substance. So nothing really there that moves the dial for me economically or otherwise. Um, just a lot of political headlines. So I think if you had to declare a winner out of that, you'd probably say China the winner, because Trump didn't really seem to come away with anything that he had gained for the United States. So uh moving on. On from there to the other key release for the weekend. This was a lot more interesting. Global Flash PMIs, purchasing managers indices, these are essentially activity indicators. We got these for September. They were strong across the board, but particularly in the US.
And this is a big part of the reason why we saw those US interest rates keep going up. It's not just debt levels and deficits and all of those new. Negative things, inflation concerns. It is also growth. Growth just keeps looking better and better in the US. So, really important that we keep that in mind. There's a a positive side to that rising interest rate coin too, and that is that the economic outlook in many places looks pretty solid.
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