Equities

Wild ride for US stocks

Deadline of 27 June

Currently yielding 2.5%

Partly offset by creation of 200 new roles

Easy to become 'despondent' over Japan

High valuations and low earnings

The European Central Bank recently announced a further set of measures intended ultimately to increase the rate of inflation, which includes the corporate sector purchase programme (CSPP), a plan to buy euro-denominated corporate bonds that will be launched...

Henderson's manager of the European Focus trust, John Bennett (pictured), and manager of the EuroTrust, Tim Stevenson, discuss the main drivers for European companies in the current environment.

Emerging markets have faced a perfect storm recently, writes JPMAM's Emily Whiting.

A number of commentators correctly highlighted at the start of the year that dividends were at risk in the resources area of the UK equity market, writes Stephen Message, manager of the Old Mutual UK Equity Income fund.