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Positive net retail sales over seven consecutive months show investors are shifting back towards sector

While the rest of the developed world benefited from significant amounts of liquidity injected via Quantitative Easing (QE) programmes, Japan had a comparatively tight fiscal policy.

Tom Ewing, manager of Fidelity's UK Growth fund, takes a defensive approach to investing post credit crunch and economic downturn

With fiscal and monetary stimulus appearing from all directions, the US GDP hit a positive 3.5% in Q3 2009, most likely indicating the end of the recession.

Twelve months ago, in the aftermath of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, it looked as though the liquidity crunch could bring down the world's financial system.

Turkey is well placed to emerge from the global economic slowdown ahead of other countries in the EMEA region

With the end of the recession in sight, investors in the US need to be wary of the example of Japan's markets in the 1990s and beware of broad-based economic deflation

What is normal going forward? Recently, investors appear to be assuming corporate profitability and economic growth will rebound to prior levels as quickly as they disappeared. Many are assuming a ‘V-shaped' recovery and have embraced cyclically driven...

The eurozone economy has left recession with economic growth of 0.4% between July and September.

With gilt yields at historically low levels and after a period of generally very strong performance from corporate bonds, what is the outlook for bond markets in the coming months?