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The Commonwealth Bank produces high quality research incorporating in-depth analysis of the key global economic and equities markets. Our comprehensive analysis spans foreign exchange, commodities, all the key equities asset classes, strategy, structured finance, debt, credit and forecasting. Combined with our exceptional sales and trading capabilities our focus is to help our clients make informed decisions by providing value-added, independent and insightful analysis.



We produce daily reports covering all the key markets including FX, Commodities, Economics, Equities, Credit and Debt.	Our expert research teams are amongst the most experienced and professional in the industry. For more information about our research teams click here.	We provide high quality research across all major asset classes. The main emphasis is on Australia and New Zealand.

2 December 2008 - AEST 8.30am - The US economy is officially in recession - European sharemarkets fell on Monday as traders took profits on the solid gains recorded for shares and commodities last week - With an hour of trade to go the Dow Jones was lower by 395pts or 4.5pct while the S&P was lower by 5.3pct and the Nasdaq was lower by 85pts or 5.6pct - USD made modest gains against Euro and commodity currencies but slumped against the Japanese yen - Crude oil prices fell sharply on Monday - Base metal priceswere generally lower - And the price of gold fell after traders booked profits on last weeks solid gains.

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