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UK GDP for the third quarter has been revised up by 0.1% to 0.6%, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) announced this morning.

Chinese and Indian policymakers have promised to take action to boost economic growth on deepening fears emerging economies will suffer a hard landing.

Fidelity's Anthony Bolton is expecting a slowdown in inflation to boost equity markets in China next year, following a sell-off which has hurt performance in 2011.

Brazil's economic growth slowed in the third quarter of 2011 as the impact of the crisis in Europe and the slowdown in global growth impacted the region.

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Chancellor George Osborne has slashed his growth forecast for the next few years but says the UK is unlikely to slide into recession.

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