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Shares in Barclays led the FTSE 100 leader board today as investors reacted to an upgrade from Goldman Sachs.

Henderson's Richard Pease expects improving economic indicators, combined with hedge funds putting their cash back to work in equities, will lift European markets towards the end of the year.

Global markets rallied today after fiscal cliff talks between President Barack Obama and Congressional leaders stepped up a notch over the weekend.

The government is considering nationalising the 316 Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) branches currently up for sale with a view to creating a new business lender, the Sunday Times reports.

A double-digit stock market correction will prove the wake-up call to spur policymakers into action on the eurozone crisis, and could prove the perfect time to buy European stocks, according to Justin Oliver.

The UK economy may never recover the £66bn spent on rescuing Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Lloyds, a new report has warned.

Standard Life's Global Absolute Return Strategies fund has dropped out of the top ten highest inflows on Fidelity FundsNetwork, according to data from the platform.

The eurozone has officially entered recession, the latest GDP data shows, as growth in core economies was offset by a surprisingly weak figure from the Netherlands.

Henderson's Job Curtis, manager of the City of London Investment Trust, has taken profits from tobacco giant British American Tobacco (BAT) after a stellar decade for the group.