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Divergent monetary policy is causing currency volatility, and the euro has slumped. BlackRock's Stuart Reeve explores how European equity investors can weather the turbulence.

Emerging markets still sensitive to US policy and currency moves

The strong dollar has been the bane of equity markets, placing pressure on earnings. But Simon Laing, head of US equities at Invesco Perpetual, argues investors need to look back at the 1980s, when markets soared alongside the dollar’s strength, for investment inspiration

With globalisation under pressure, Samy Chaar, strategist at Lombard Odier Investment Management, asks if a new mantra of regionalisation and non-dollar currency trading could become the norm

Aberdeen Asset Management is set to cut fees on two of its offshore short-term bond funds, Investment Week can reveal.

Sterling tumbled in overnight trading and was poised for further losses today after the latest poll showed Scotland is on course for independence.

Stock markets have jumped this afternoon following a series of drastic measures from the European Central Bank to stave off a downturn and boost inflation.

Sterling has climbed to a four-year high against the dollar after the UK's jobless rate, one of the triggers for an interest rate rise, was breached.

The sharp drop in the UK unemployment rate and mounting expectations of a 2014 rate hike pushed sterling to a two-year high versus the US dollar in morning trading.

The US dollar is closing in on a five-year high versus the yen, with gold heading towards a one-year low, ahead of the release of minutes from the Federal Reserve's historic December meeting.