UK

A poor session in Asia this morning and unconvincing display on Wall Street overnight weighed on the FTSE 100 as it opened four points down at 5,673.

The FTSE 100 rose 0.5% to 5,757.22 in early trading, despite negative company announcements across various sectors.

The Comprehensive Spending Review is necessary to bring the UK economy "back from the brink", says Chancellor George Osborne.

Hugh Hendry has hit out at Hargreaves Lansdown for axing his Eclectica Agriculture fund from its Wealth 150 list, labelling the group's reasons for removing the fund as ‘mystifying'.

Reasons to be cheerful about the UK market

I am both saver and spender, 50:50 I’d say, but I keep hearing I need to be more one than the other.

Barclays Wealth has developed a risk-graded fund range as part of a push into the intermediary market.

Global banking shares drove markets higher today following the outcome of the Basel III Committee meeting to reform the banking sector.

Fund managers expect the Basel Committee's new rules on bank capital adequacy to have a major impact on financial sector debt and equity markets.

A group of Chinese investors are in the "early stages" of considering a bid for Prudential, according to a weekend report.