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National Savings & Investments (NS&I) today announced both its fixed interest savings certificates and index-linked savings certificates have been withdrawn from general sale - because they are attracting too much investment.

Capital Economics' Roger Bootle is among 20 of the UK's leading economists urging the coalition to drop the 50p tax rate, calling the top levy a "self-defeating" way for the Treasury to raise money because it risks driving away the nation's wealth creators....

Alliance Trust has expanded its global equities team with the appointment of Juergen Lanzer from Schroders.

US markets opened sharply lower on Tuesday, having missed the sell-off at the start of the week, before services data helped improve sentiment.

RBS expects Greece will experience a hard default this December in a move it says will cause "violent contagion" in global markets.

Old Mutual Asset Managers has poached RLAM's European star fund manager Kevin Lilley to head up the group's £71m European Equity fund.

Kames Capital's bond managers Stephen Snowden and Phil Milburn have warned it is too early to start buying up cheap stock as we are only 75% of the way through the European sovereign debt crisis.

The Swiss franc has fallen 9% against the euro after the Swiss National Bank (SNB) said it was setting a minimum exchange rate against the single currency.

London's leading share index has rebounded from yesterday's turbulent session, with investors finding value in depressed bank stocks.

National Australia Bank is in talks with NBNK, the challenger bank run by former Northern Rock's former chief executive Gary Hoffman, over a merger of its UK operations as part of a bid for the 632 branches being sold by Lloyds Banking Group, plus other...