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Ongoing disruption in the Middle East and the higher oil price has dragged on global markets, with many seeing losses of more than 1%.

More older people are still at work after reaching 65, figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) have shown.

Jupiter has promoted Philip Matthews to the role of deputy manager on the £2.5bn Jupiter Income trust, run by Anthony Nutt.

The soaring oil price poses a threat to the US economic recovery if price hikes are sustained, warns Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke.

Taxpayers are being given just days to pay bills totalling thousands of pounds in the latest clampdown by HM Revenue & Customs.

The price of gold has hit a record high on concerns about unrest in the Middle East and contagion risk from Libya, while oil has topped the $116 a barrel mark.

NatWest International Personal Banking (NatWest IPB) has launched Sectors Cashback 3, a structured product for customers who want to have potential returns linked to different sectors with full capital protection.

Barclays Wealth has launched the China Optimiser structured product, a six-year investment offering 65% return of the strategy plus capital paid back in full at maturity.

Conservative MP Mark Garnier has promised to give FSA chief executive Hector Sants and chairman Adair Turner "hell" when they are hauled in front of the Treasury Select Committee (TSC) and forced to justify the RDR in a public evidence session next week....

Sesame managing director Nick Kelly outlines the key things firms should look for in a network after the FSA yesterday said it had concerns over the network model.