Technology

Apple, the world's largest company, revealed profits in the fourth quarter missed analysts' estimates, prompting a share price drop of 1.5% in after-hours trading.

Fidelity's new hire Jeremy Podger has backed Google as one of several changes to the Global Special Situations fund, in spite of the sell-off following the tech giant's bungled Q3 earnings release.

Shares in Google closed down 8% after the tech giant's third quarter results - revealing a 20% drop in profits - were mistakenly released ahead of the US market close.

Lindsell Train co-founder Nick Train believes the negative sentiment surrounding equities has been overstated, and argues equities are instead in bull market territory.

Investors should snap up bargains in US healthcare, technology and financial stocks which offer better value than any time over the past 60 years, Legg Mason's chief investment officer Sam Peters has said.

Internet search giant Google has become bigger than Microsoft in terms of market cap after its shares surged 30% in the last quarter.

Apple shares hit a new record of almost $681 a share in US trading overnight as investors continued to digest the fallout from a $1bn patent lawsuit.

Facebook shares fell 10% in after-hours trading after the company revealed a second quarter loss of $157m as revenue growth slowed.

Microsoft has reported a quarterly net loss of $492m, its first in 26 years as a public company, but it and Google helped ease concerns over the resilience of the tech sector as sales rose despite overall.

JO Hambro Capital Management is to launch a Global Opportunities fund as its UK Opportunities fund, run by the same managers, fast approaches its £1bn capacity limit.