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Tis the season for a rally - 7IM

Now that the New Year is here, we can look with hindsight at a festive stockmarket phenomenon: the so-called 'Santa Claus Rally'.

35% of financial services execs support criminal charges for reckless bankers

More than a third (35%) of global financial services professionals working in banks, asset management and hedge funds believe that executives should be held criminally liable for the actions of staff.

Charles Stanley Direct offers 25 per cent dealing discount

Alliance Trust Savings last week announced it would be increasing its fees by up to 87 per cent from February. Its pricing revisions included some dealing discounts for long-term customers.

Why gold bugs should brace for an 'awful' 2014

Gold had a tumultuous run in 2013 but don't expect any respite in the new year

Institutional managers set their sights on the fee conscious European retail investor

Bridging the Gap

Investment Outlook: A good year by Teis Knuthsen, CIO, Saxo Private Bank

The past year has been an extraordinary investment year with exceptional returns on developed markets equities.

A world economy on the brink of fracture by Jeremy Warner

What will happen in 2014? The Chinese economy will slow; the price of oil will sink; Germany will slide into recession; the EU will remain intact and the internet will begin to Balkanise

Latvia joins the eurozone

Latvia's arrival in the eurozone is testament to the Baltic state's success at pushing through structural reform

Cofunds: 2014 Will be About What is ‘Worth Paying For’

Advisers and investors have unprecedented opportunity to influence price and service, platform says.

Coutts Insights - Think small in search for next tech stars

The thrill hasn’t gone from the technology sector, as Twitter’s recent stockmarket float proves. But technology investment faces an inherent challenge: its limited shelf life.

Ireland’s remarkable turnaround offers lessons

Country focused on finding ways out of the crisis and thus save the economy from total collapse

Even if Bitcoin fails, cryptocurrencies are here to stay

Is paper money headed for obsolescence, swept aside by the meteoric rise of Bitcoin?

This year has been challenging, says Standard Chartered finance chief Richard Meddings

Standard Chartered’s finance director talks about unfair levies, the different image of banking in the East and the charity that binds his group

Ex-RBS chief Hourican defends record despite Libor

Hourican, who headed the investment bank, cut its balance sheet by two-thirds and made 10,000 staff redundant following the taxpayer bail-out. Yesterday, he said: “I don’t expect any thanks.

Rothschild Market Perspective January 2014

Developed equities are the only asset class capable of delivering real returns in 2014

Index Winners and Losers for the Year & a 'PC' Christmas celebration by Justin Urquhart Stewart

Now to read the words of the wise

Schroders skipping no details with Cazenove

“People may have thought I was mad,” Mr. Harrison said. “(But) it was about every single person feeling comfortable.”

Russia ’98 Crisis Haunts Deutsche Bank’s Smith Seeing China Bust

China’s expansion is being fueled by soaring corporate borrowing

Bernanke bows out shunning Cold Turkey

Equity markets have experienced relief rallies on news of the Fed decision to wind down the asset buying programme by an initial $10bn dropping from $85bn per months to $75bn

EFG’s 2014 Outlook: Opportunities & Traps

Year-ahead assessments of where the world economy and financial markets are heading customarily start with the US. In 2014 the path of the US economy and policy appears, for once, fairly settled.

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