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Vodafone's sale of its 45% holding in US peer Verizon Wireless could see an extra £10bn invested in UK equities in the coming weeks, according to reports.

Rathbones has reported a 15% increase in pre-tax profit for 2013, to £44m, but its interest in a potential purchase of Jupiter's private client business remains uncertain.

Shares across Asia fell on Thursday after latest Chinese manufacturing data came in at a seven-month low.

Facebook's share price fell as much as 5% in after-hours trading as the company announced a deal to buy chat application WhatsApp for some $19bn.

Three Co-operative fund managers have left Royal London Asset Management following the integration of the two businesses.

IFA and discretionary wealth manager AFH Financial Group plans to list on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange as it eyes future expansion.

Average annual investment returns over the last decade were similar to those of the last century, despite several global wars and a financial collapse, according to analysis from Brewin Dolphin.

Sterling fell slightly against most major currencies this morning after the Office of National Statistics reported higher-than-expected unemployment figures.

Angela Merkel's government is the latest to back the US Federal Reserve's withdrawal of monetary stimulus despite continuing emerging market turmoil, reports have suggested.

The Bank of England will not hike interest rates until well in to 2015 at the earliest, according to Hawksmoor Investment Management's head of research, Jim Wood-Smith.