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THE AGE OF EQUITIES IS OVER

WHAT WOULD BUTCH AND SUNDANCE DO?

Last week's decision by the Swiss National Bank to cap its exchange rate to a minimum of CHF1.20 to the euro will not rescue the Swiss economy, said Jennifer McKeown, senior European economist at Capital Economics.

HSBC Asset Management's emerging market debt specialists Guillermo Osses, and Nathan Chaudoin discuss this diverse and rapidly growing marketplace.

Andrew Milligan, head of global strategy at Standard Life Investments, scrutinises Ben Bernanke's Jackson Hole speech.

China's attempts to cool rising prices have begun to have an impact, as inflation slowed in August after hitting a three-year high the previous month.

The OECD has urged global economies, particularly Europe, to take "credible steps" to curtail debt as it said the recovery has ground to a halt.

As creators of credit, banks are in a very privileged position. To create a loan, the equivalent of making a sale for other companies, banks just need to type a number into a computer and hit ‘enter'. This is a licence that frequently gets abused if banks...

Newton is to lower the dividend target on Tineke Frikkee's Newton Higher Income fund in light of a "challenging market environment", as the group also moves to merge a number of its UK equity funds.

Kames Capital's bond managers Stephen Snowden and Phil Milburn have warned it is too early to start buying up cheap stock as we are only 75% of the way through the European sovereign debt crisis.