Economics

After a runaway three-year period for many, some of the heat has come out of wealth and asset manager share prices this year amid wider market falls.

US stocks posted their largest one-day gain this year as the latest meeting minutes from the Federal Reserve suggest it may adopt a more cautious stance on hiking interest rates.

Markets in the US fell overnight, after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) cut its forecast for global growth for the next two years.

Neil Woodford has ended a 10-year investment in Reckitt Benckiser after the shares became "too expensive" to justify holding any longer.

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Mark Williams, manager of the Liontrust Asian Income fund, says the 6% fall for the Aussie against the dollar last month may just be the start of the bad news for the country's economy.

Brazilian equity markets have rallied sharply after a strong performance by pro-business candidate Aecio Neves in the first round of the presidential election.

The pound dropped to its lowest rate against the dollar in almost a year this afternoon after the US unemployment rate fell below 6%, triggering a further rally for the dollar.

Shares in Sainsbury's fell further today after it became the latest supermarket to cut its sales forecast for the full year, following a slump in trading in the second quarter.

The Office for National Statistics has revised second quarter growth figures in the UK up from 0.8% to 0.9% in its final estimate.