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India has faced a number of headwinds this year but the country still offers plenty of investment potential, writes Nitin Jain, principal fund manager at Kotak Mahindra (UK).

Sharat Dua, portfolio adviser to the Charlemagne Magna Africa fund, asks why the continent is not attracting investors' money.

Among the brigade of economists and investment strategists a depressing idea has been gaining traction in recent years, one we might call the Japanification of the Anglo Saxon world.

HSBC Asset Management's emerging market debt specialists Guillermo Osses, and Nathan Chaudoin discuss this diverse and rapidly growing marketplace.

UK output softened in the three months to August, and if the economy weakens further it will pave the way for more QE, according to the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR).

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The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) has slashed its forecast for UK GDP growth this year for the third time as the economy continues to wane.

The US Commerce Department has said US GDP rose at an annualised rate of 1% in the second quarter, down from an earlier estimate of 1.3%.

Britain's economy grew at 0.2% for the second quarter, according to the first revision of the data by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Dramatic stock market movements and disappointing economic data have caused leading economists to downgrade their growth forecasts, but they are still not predicting a recession, the FT reports.