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The FTSE 100 has jumped almost 1% after former US Treasury secretary Larry Summers withdrew his candidacy to replace Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke next year.

Invesco Perpetual's Neil Woodford is backing the Thomas Cook turnaround story, Investment Week can reveal, and has bought his first FTSE 100 financial since the crisis.

Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has promised people earning minimum wage will pay no income tax should the Liberal Democrats stay in government.

Markets across Asia started the week brightly as traders bet the withdrawal of Fed chair candidate Larry Summers' could slow the US' curtailment of quantitative easing.

Official consumer prices index (CPI) inflation is expected to dip this week when official figures are released.

Former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers has withdrawn his candidacy to succeed Ben Bernanke as head of the US central bank, the Federal Reserve.

Richard Romer-Lee and Nigel Whittingham have revealed details of their new consultancy business, nearly a year after the pair left Morningstar OBSR.

AXA Wealth Services (AXA) was today fined £1.8m for giving poor investment advice to elderly and inexperienced customers, even though only 82 people complained. So what went wrong?

Hargreaves Lansdown's legal challenge to HMRC's move to tax platform rebates was the story of most interest to Investment Week's readers this week.

Mining stocks led a drop in the FTSE 100 today as falling commodity prices weighed on shares.