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Facebook will disclose extensive financial information or go public by early 2012 following a $2bn private fund-raising which values the social networking site at $50bn, according to people close to the situation.

The term ‘total expense ratio' sounds like it should incorporate all the costs of an ETF. But the TER figure can differ widely from the true cost of owning a fund, as Helen Fowler discovers

Michael John Lytle, managing director and founding partner at Source, talks to Emma Cusworth about the importance of increasing liquidity in the European ETF market

iShares and Goldman Sachs have unveiled fixed income and hedge fund replication ETFs on the German Stock Exchange Xetra.

Government austerity measures may have to be rethought if the recovery slows, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned.

RBS has appointed Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to oversee the flotation of its insurance business.

Bank of England Governor Mervyn King has thrown his weight behind breaking up the banks as part of reforms to protect the taxpayer from another financial meltdown.

Although the European ETF market has always played asset catch-up with its older US counterpart, it is set to experience a growth spurt on the back of regulatory developments. Helen Fowler reports

The Treasury is looking into the practice of high-frequency trading as concerns grow that computer-generated errors could have a significant impact on the economy.

The prospect of a double-dip recession in Britain is increasing with every month as consumer confidence dwindles to recession levels, a long-running study shows.