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What made financial headlines over the weekend?

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Post-election portfolios and really not a great deal else - here's our weekly heads-up on the financial stories that may have caught your clients' attention over the weekend …

I'll stick with stocks come what May To judge from the - perhaps understandably - narrow spread of stories in this weekend's financial pages, littles will have caught your clients' attention that was not election related. So, for example, Thursday's surprise result prompted Sunday Times columnist Ian Cowie to urge Brits to keep calm and carry on, arguing that since long-term gains should be the focus of any investor, no sleep should be lost over a hung parliament. Cowie points out the FTSE 100 index actually ended the week more than 1% higher than before the election, mainly because mo...

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