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Cazenove's top performing UK Equity Income fund manager Matt Hudson has identified the potential winners among the UK's banking sector following a stellar year for all the big banks.

The number of fund managers backing a strengthening in the US dollar hit a record high in March, as optimism over the US recovery also gathered pace.

Giles Hargreave has been boosting his stakes in online gaming companies, to capitalise on a relaxation of legal restrictions on internet gambling in the United States.

The UK's new-look regulator - the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) - has hired Schroders chief executive Michael Dobson to its practitioner panel ahead of its conversion into its new structure.

UK CPI inflation rose from 2.7% to 2.8% in February as rising energy prices pushed the reading to its highest level since May of last year.

Investment trust analysts at Liberum Capital argue investors should be digging deeper to find value in the investment trust space.

Société Générale strategist Albert Edwards has urged investors to stick with their core government bond holdings in the face of a threat to US profit margins which could hit equity markets.

Fay Goddard, the current chief executive of the Personal Finance Society (PFS), is to join Lighthouse Group as a non-executive director next month.

Asian markets rebounded strongly overnight, recovering from their worst one day falls since last July, as eurozone contagion fears receded following Cyprus' controversial bailout package.

Cypriot officials are attempting to renegotiate the terms of its €10bn bailout to limit the pain for small account holders, according to reports.