Barclays read recent Chinese measures as evidence that officials are accepting that the country's growth trend has been hit by the build-up of imbalances that can no longer be sustained. Barclays's analysts think that a lower Chinese growth trend, more than the cyclical slowdown, opens interesting opportunities for FX markets in the months ahead.

Salman Ahmed, LOIM's Global Strategist, has commented on the Swiss National Bank's policy update this morning. He discusses the implications for the Swiss currency and the wider impact on the eurozone economy.

According to John Chatfeild-Roberts, CIO of Jupiter Asset Management, over the past decade, we have seen several longer term trends play out, from swift urbanisation in developing nations to technological advances everywhere. Changes in currency trends have also had an impact on economies and stock markets, in particular the directional changes in the world's reserve currency, the US dollar...

Risks to Russia's economy in 2015 have been increased by this week's extreme volatility in the rouble and the sharp rise in interest rates, Fitch Ratings says.

Source, an investment firm and a leading European provider of Exchange Traded Products (ETPs), is pleased to announce the launch of a euro-hedged version of the Source S&P 500 UCITS ETF, which currently has approximately US$ 1.7 billion of assets under management.