Tests to avoid a ‘Sino-Forest scenario’ of a group with allegedly non-existent assets listing in London should not overlook smaller indices

U.S. stocks ended mostly lower Friday as jittery investors digested a weaker-than-expected economic growth report and as Europe's debt crisis still loomed in the background.

Funds investing in US banks have attracted inflows for eight successive weeks, the longest such run since March 2000

The 2012 broad risk asset rally is enduring another bout of fatigue as attention returns to the Greek debt negotiations

The Food and Drug Administration said Friday that it had detained orange juice shipments from Canada after they tested positive for low levels of a banned fungicide previously found in Brazilian juice. The FDA announced earlier this month that it would begin testing foreign orange juice shipments for the presence of the fungicide carbendazim before allowing them to enter the country. On Friday, the agency said that among 80 shipments from around the world it tested so far, six from Canada and five from Brazil had tested positive. The samples that have tested positive so far had carbendazim levels of between 10 and 52 parts per billion. The Environmental Protection Agency says carbendazim levels under 80 parts per billion do not raise safety concerns.

Investors have returned to US junk bonds in numbers in early 2012 after last year’s European debt problems drove them to seek safe havens

The precious metal led commodities higher with crude oil prices also moving up on concerns over the EU’s oil embargo on Iran

‘Lower for longer’ policy means savers, group pensions and investors who rely on fixed-income returns face relentless tightening of pressure

The greenback fell against a range of major currencies, with the Japanese yen one of the biggest risers after a week of steep drops

The banking software maker outperformed a generally falling London market as the index fell 1.1 per cent, leaving it flat for the week

European financials have rebounded strongly but is this the moment to chase the rally or maintain pessimism, asks Richard Milne

It is every parents' dream that their children enjoy a better life than they have. I am not sure if that's also true for parent companies and their offspring.

The private equity world is struggling to stay in the shadows.

U.S. stock futures lost momentum after a weaker-than-expected U.S. economic report, and while Europe's debt crisis still looms in the background.

Netflix is the highest flying stock on the S&P 500 Thursday, but was its fourth-quarter earnings report enough to justify a 22% run up in the stock?

Eurozone banks slipped on Friday morning after JPMorgan Chase cut ratings for BNP Paribas and Crédit Agricole to ‘neutral’ and ‘underweight’

Friday’s successful sale pushed the yield of the country’s benchmark 10-year bond firmly below the 6 per cent mark, to 5.94 per cent

Asian stocks, led by energy companies, edged higher but gains were hard won following an uninspiring performance on Wall Street overnight

The dollar loses ground as risk appetite is lifted following the unexpectedly dovish statement from the US Federal Reserve

Corporate bond trading volumes this month are running at their highest level in a nearly a year, according to the latest data from a major regulator