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Risk profiling, getting the right balance with pension funds and investing in America were all over the nationals at the weekend. Here's what your clients will be calling you about this week.

Asian stocks fell overnight after a US congressional committee charged with reducing the nation's deficit failed on Monday to agree on cuts.

Hungary has asked the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Union (EU) for financial aid as its debt pile grows and its currency weakens.

Nationals round-up: Hargreaves Lansdown criticised, another look at investing in technology and inflation assessed.

Global markets fell this morning over fears the new Spanish government - instated over the weekend - will not be able to pull back its domestic economy from the brink of default.

Royal Bank of Scotland is facing legal action over the collapse of MF Global after two pension funds accused the bank of making misleading statements about the broker's $6.3bn (£3.9bn) exposure to European sovereign debt.

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A meeting in Berlin between David Cameron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel will be dominated by the European debt crisis, but is expected to also tackle the concept of a tax on financial transactions - known as the Tobin Tax - on which the two nations...

Moody's has downgraded the credit ratings of 10 German public-sector banks, and taken action against another two, saying there is a lower likelihood the German government will step in with a bailout.

Top fund managers talk to Joanna Faith about the biggest drivers of growth in the Asia Pacific sector