Equities

Walker Crips managers back global franchises across portfolios as UK's prospects look increasingly gloomy.

ON JAPAN

US markets opened lower today as more weak economic data emerged from the US showing no jobs were created in August.

Maria Merricks examines whether equities or bonds offer the most value...

Fidelity has launched a European Dynamic Value fund, managed by Neil Madden and seeking to identify cheap and disliked stocks with improving fundamentals.

ON EUROPE

The White House has revised down US economic growth forecast for 2011 to 1.7% but said the US will avoid slipping back into recession.

Greece will miss its budget deficit target this year, the government and its international lenders said yesterday, but there was disagreement over how big the fiscal derailment will be.

The US is planning to sue more than a dozen major banks for misrepresenting the quality of mortgages they sold during the housing bubble, the New York Times reports.

Aegon's asset management capabilities in the UK has officially been re-branded as Kames Capital today.