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Highlights include:
- Budding recent confidence in Europe's economy took a knock from sanctions announced against Russia. The S&P Europe 350 ended July with a 1.5% loss.
- Increasingly tense global politics as well as disappointing earnings from the U.S. have pushed up volatility measures across developed markets.
- Pan-Eurozone sovereign yields continued to contract; the German Bund now yielding only a shade over 1%.