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News and comment

Welcome to your on-line financial newsletter. This service is regularly updated to bring you news of important developments in financial matters.

The news stories on this page have been written and produced by a third party and neither nor its representatives can be held responsible for the accuracy of the content/information contained within these stories.

FT.com - Financial Markets News

• Wall Street shrugs off Nikkei slide
  Thu, 23 May 2013 17:25:21 GMT
  Bullish US equity investors brush aside steep losses for Japanese shares and concerns about the outlook for the Chinese economy
  

• UK?s FTSE suffers biggest fall in a year
  Thu, 23 May 2013 17:14:51 GMT
  Miners led the wider market lower on weak Chinese manufacturing data. The FTSE 100 dropped from a 13-year high, losing 2.1 per cent or 143.48 points at 6,696.79
  

• Spain mulls inflation-linked debt sale
  Thu, 23 May 2013 17:01:57 GMT
  Spanish bond yields have fallen sharply since the height of the eurozone debt crisis, driven by promise of intervention from the European Central Bank
  

Citywire Investment News

• 'Keep calm and carry on' as FTSE tumbles 2%
  Thu, 23 May 2013 17:19:00 +0100
  Has the correction begun or is this a breather? Experts say today's slide in the FTSE 100 is an over-reaction to US and China news. 
  

• GLG's Edwards: three charts on why you shouldn't panic over Japan plunge
  Thu, 23 May 2013 15:16:26 +0100
  Japan veteran Neil Edwards says 'buy on the dips' as the trend is still generally upwards.
  

• Withers/Speechly Bircham merger talks collapse
  Thu, 23 May 2013 14:41:47 +0100
  The private client law firms have decided against a merger after nearly two months of negotiations.
  

Citywire Money, Tax and Property

• Castle Trust: a bet for both sides of the property market
  Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:44:11 +0100
  We look at a company offering a savings account and a 'shared equity' mortgage that let you take a punt on whether house prices are rising or falling.
  

• Santander told to contact borrowers about botched rate change
  Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:22:56 +0100
  The City watchdog has ordered Santander bank to contact 270,000 mortgage borrowers whom it failed to explain an important change in their contract five years ago.
  

• Buy-to-let is booming but beware the pitfalls
  Thu, 18 Apr 2013 11:25:46 +0100
  The buy-to-let market is buoyant as investors are lured by high rents and cheap mortgages.
  

BBC News

• VIDEO: April accused's 'fright and fear'
  Thu, 23 May 2013 19:20:35 GMT
  A man accused of murdering April Jones has told a court he felt sick with "fright and fear" after he said he accidentally knocked her over in his car.
  

• Obama defends 'just' drones war
  Thu, 23 May 2013 19:07:22 GMT
  President Obama defends the use of drones as a "just war" of self-defence against deadly militants, and a campaign that has made America safer.
  

• Lee Rigby named as Woolwich victim
  Thu, 23 May 2013 19:06:52 GMT
  The soldier killed on a London street is named as Drummer Lee Rigby of the 2nd Battalion the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, as two more people are held.
  

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