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Equities
A mixed year for equity markets nonetheless ended on a high, with the FTSE 100 up over 12% year to date and the FTSE All Share 15% ahead, but which stocks thrived and which dived in 2013?
23 December 2013
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UK
Newly-listed Royal Mail has entered the FTSE 100 index of the UK's largest companies following a huge move in its share price post-IPO.
23 December 2013
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Economics
The FTSE 100 climbed in early trading in line with other major equity markets as the US Federal Reserve moved to taper its bond buying programme.
19 December 2013
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Investment
A year hyped as the start of a great rotation from bonds into equities actually saw more of a trickle out of fixed income, but it was not plain sailing for bond funds.
17 December 2013
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2 min read
Economics
Aggreko's share price shot up more than 8% yesterday, after the firm won contracts to supply power at next year's World Cup in Brazil and Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
17 December 2013
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Managed funds
Alexander Friedman, global CIO at UBS Wealth Management, sees Japan as ‘more of a risk' to investors than China in the coming year.
13 December 2013
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Equities
Bob Diamond, the former boss of Barclays who left in disgrace last year after the bank admitted its role in rigging Libor rates, is reportedly close to making a comeback with a new bank venture.
09 December 2013
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Investment
In smaller companies investing, there are few managers more high profile or successful than Standard Life Investments' Harry Nimmo.
06 December 2013
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3 min read
