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Thousands of ‘accidental Americans' could be unwittingly caught by the Foreign Accounting and Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) from July, leaving them exposed to US tax liabilities, Vestra Wealth has warned.

The US Federal Reserve chairman Janet Yellen has hinted that interest rates in the US could start to rise in early 2015.

A US regulator has sued 16 banks for allegedly manipulating the London interbank offered rate (Libor).

Investors have a decision to make: stick with the expensive developed world or take a risk on cheaper emerging markets.

Vanguard Asset Management has soft-closed two of its popular US equity funds to new investors.

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway failed to beat the S&P 500's return last year, meaning it missed Buffett's target of beating the index over a five year period for the first time.

Shares across Asia fell on Thursday after latest Chinese manufacturing data came in at a seven-month low.

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Weaker US data and ongoing expectations of tighter UK monetary policy have helped boost gold and sterling respectively as the dollar loses ground.