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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.

National Australia Bank is in talks with NBNK, the challenger bank run by former Northern Rock's former chief executive Gary Hoffman, over a merger of its UK operations as part of a bid for the 632 branches being sold by Lloyds Banking Group, plus other...

(Updated 2:30pm) Banks are continuing to take the brunt of the latest market sell-off as fresh fears of a European banking crisis emerged on Monday.

J.P. Morgan Asset Management has launched an inflation-linked bond fund investing in European debt, as the group looks to profit from the volatile market conditions across the continent.

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