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The FTSE opened down 0.44% at 5,625.38 despite gains by medical stocks after President Obama's landmark healthcare reforms were passed in the US.

The global recovery is well in line with forecasts for 2010, 2011 and 2012 looking for growth of around 4% in each year.

Lazard's Alan Clifford says UK investors need to be more creative than ever to achieve both capital appreciation and yield premiums

SLI's Gordon Humphries says the UK stock market has not been suffering in line with the UK economy in recent weeks and one of the key drivers of this dislocation is the massive overseas exposure of many UK-listed companies

MarketGuard has launched a new insurance product designed to protect the value of a policyholder's index tracker in a downturn.

A decision by the US Federal Reserve to keep interest rates on hold boosted sentiment in London this morning.

The FTSE 100 was up 0.65% or 36.43 points to 5,630 early this morning as the rumoured RBS debt restructuring boosts financial stocks.

Small-cap IPOs have been very competitively valued according to the Ignis Smaller Companies fund manager

Manager transforms Fidelity Growth & Income and MoneyBuilder Growth funds since taking over the helm

John Husselbee's North Investment Partners has constructed its own structured note to effectively short government bonds across the manager's range of multi-manager funds.