Japan

Nationals round-up: The Budget continues to grab headlines on the Money pages while investors are still mulling whether to invest in Japan.

Renewed fears over efforts to cool Japan's nuclear reactors have lead to a sluggish start to the week for European markets.

Patrick Armstrong, joint managing partner and head of portfolio strategy and construction at Distinction Asset Management, assesses the impact of recent turmoil in Japan and the Middle East on global markets.

Laurent Kssis at LaBranche Structured Products Europe (LSPE) discusses European ETF trades for the week ending 18 March.

Cash flows into Japan equity funds last week were dominated by ETFs, with eight Japanese equity tracker funds pulling in $936.8m in the seven days to Wednesday, according to Lipper.

Global markets are continuing to fight back with all the leading indices trading in the black after G7 finance ministers agreed to cool the soaring yen.

Henderson Extra Monthly Income Bond fund manager Ben Pakenham on why he is adding to risk assets following the Japanese earthquake and subsequent sell-off in high yield debt.

UK banks have about £136bn of exposure to crisis-struck Japan, but it is "too soon" to judge the full hit to Britain's financial sector, the FSA says.

The Dow Jones posted strong gains in early trading on Thursday as a cooling operation at the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant eased investor fears.

Regulators in the UK, US and Japan will widen their probe into Libor fixing in the banking sector to include more than 15 banks, according to insiders.