China

Dire data from households and its impact on retailers, strike action talks, heads roll at UBS, and advice from the PM to Britain to reject "can't do sogginess" for the drive of China. Our round-up up of the nationals.

We were delighted to welcome Fidelity's Anthony Bolton as the keynote speaker at the Investment Week Senate Autumn Conference 2011.

Fidelity's Anthony Bolton has said he remains a world equity market bull despite a global situation that he said resembles "a big game of poker".

The FTSE 100 has slipped back into the red mid morning as poor performance from the banking and mining sectors weighed on the index.

Stocks in the US and Asia rallied overnight after Italy turned to China for help with its debt crisis.

Figures from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) suggest activity in the UK fell for a sixth straight month in July and at its steepest rate since June 2010.

As creators of credit, banks are in a very privileged position. To create a loan, the equivalent of making a sale for other companies, banks just need to type a number into a computer and hit ‘enter'. This is a licence that frequently gets abused if banks...

China could have 70 fund management companies by mid-2012, according to analysis by Z-Ben Advisors.

Guernsey Finance has visited China to strengthen industry relationships in both Shanghai and Beijing.

In this week's roundup ETFM brings you news of all the listings, filings and flows in the ETP market.