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Schroders' Andy Brough believes an eventual collapse of the euro would not be the Doomsday event many fear and could be the best scenario for many nations on the Continent.

Investec Asset Management, which runs over $4bn in active currency funds, believes sterling is the cheapest of all major global currencies.

Prudential's efforts to persuade shareholders to back its $35.5bn takeover of AIA, the Asian business of AIG, have been dealt a blow after an influential voting adviser to investors told its clients to vote against the deal.

US markets opened lower today amid investor concerns over the eurozone and political turmoil in Korea.

The German Government plans to outlaw the naked short-selling of all stocks listed on its exchanges, enlarging last week's contentious ban on shorting key financial stocks.

Henderson chief economist Simon Ward believes the yen, rather than the US dollar, could be the big winner from a loss of confidence in the euro.

Miton manager Martin Gray shares his thoughts on the currency markets and why UK interest rate rises are more likely to come in years, not months.

GLG Partners is being sued by an investor in the US who argues his shareholding in the group is undervalued in the proposed $1.6bn takeover by Man Group.

Henderson's head of equities Bill McQuaker comments on the coalition's ‘shotgun wedding' and why he is still bullish on equities despite the difficult times ahead.

First quarter GDP growth has been revised up in line with expectations on the back of strong industrial production figures.