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Following meetings between Guernsey's Chief Minister and officials in Washington DC, the offshore finance centre has had its name removed from the US ‘blacklist' of jurisdictions accused of practising offshore secrecy.

The Bank of England made £9.8bn last year on its £200bn "money printing" programme of quantitative easing to prop up the battered UK economy.

US pension funds have filed an amended complaint alleging "rampant nepotism" and failed corporate governance" at News Corp. in light of the ongoing phone hacking scandal.

Among the top year-to-date ETF performers, there is a heavy concentration in health care, according to the latest figures from Standard & Poor's (S&P).

Deutsche Bank has appointed Tom Jarck as a Managing Director and Head of US Index Flow Trading in Global Equity Derivatives.

US Gross Domestic Product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 1.9% in Q1 2011, marginally up from its previous estimate of 1.8%.

US inflation rose to a two-and-a-half year high, as rising food prices took their toll.

Barclays will pay out compensation to all customers it sold payment protection insurance (PPI) who made a complaint before 20 April.

Two UK citizens have been accused of fraud and racketeering in a US court case about a Ponzi scheme spanning three continents.

Growth in US employment slowed down significantly last month, hitting global markets and adding to fears the economic recovery is stumbling.