Equities

ON EMERGING MARKETS

The European Central Bank has indicated it will raise interest rates for a second time in four months at next week's meeting.

Barings has added an emerging markets multi-asset fund to its range for head of multi-asset Percival Stanion.

The IMF has urged the US government to raise its debt ceiling to avoid "global repercussions" for financial markets and a debt "shock".

JP Morgan Asset Management has launched a Japanese absolute return portfolio for fund manager Kaori Tsujino.

The executive board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has chosen French finance minister Christine Lagarde as its new director.

ON EUROPE

ON THE US

Baillie Gifford's Sarah Whitley says companies seem to be under-promising and over-delivering following the earthquake.

Jon Curtis, branch manager of Charles Stanley in Eastbourne, explains why global mobile communications services provider Inmarsat could benefit your portfolio.