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The US Federal Reserve has said it will end its purchases of government bonds in October, bringing to a close the quantitative easing (QE) experiment.

Defined benefit (DB) schemes in the UK pay considerably more to offload liabilities to an insurer than schemes in other countries, according to research from Mercer.

Stranded carbon assets, poor staff management and concerns over working conditions pose significant financial risks to companies, Standard Life Investments (SLI) warns.

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.

A series of shock rate hikes have failed to prevent a fresh sell-off in emerging market currencies, with developed market equities including the FTSE 100 also caught in the storm.

Nortel Networks has agreed to pay the trustee of its UK pension scheme $37.5m (£22.9m) to settle claims against its US firms.

US treasury yields jumped yesterday and US futures fell after the second reading of US GDP growth for Q3 saw a large upward revision.

Charlotte Moore looks at the forces at work on the American currency

Taha Lokhandwala explores investors’ views on the impact of global loose monetary policy

Rachel Dalton rounds up the expert views as the US debt deadline edges nearer