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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.

A new wave of outperformance for high yield debt plus a return to financing strategies seen pre-crisis have begun to alarm bond fund managers.

Preliminary figures released today show the US economy grew at an annual rate of 3.2% in the last quarter of 2013, in line with analysts' expectations.

Japan's Nikkei has dropped another 2.5% overnight as equity markets move further into the red following a fresh tapering announcement from the US Federal Reserve.

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