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World markets this week are back in business after the Easter lull, with global investors looking ahead to what the rest of the second quarter holds after a first quarter marked by volatile equity markets and a rally for bond markets. The US Federal Reserve’s gradual taper of its quantitative easing programme is heading, at its current pace, towards an exit point later this year. Meanwhile, investor concerns linger over the lack of reaction from the European Central Bank to the risk of ultra-low inflation tipping into deflation. But the slowdown of emerging markets and the Chinese economy look to be the crucial developments for world markets over coming months; together with Russia’s designs in Ukraine and on other former Soviet Union territories.

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