Keith Wade, Chief Economist & Strategist at Schroders, still believe that rates need to rise as the economy is getting back to normal with unemployment near equilibrium and credit growth resuming. However, the Fed is clearly happy to be cautious and keep the liquidity flowing for a little longer...

The European Central Bank (ECB) is embarking on quantitative easing (QE) at a time when tailwinds are already beginning to build behind the euro area economy. Threadneedle Investments' fixed income fund manager Martin Harvey asks if we can dare to dream of a brighter 2015.

India's Union Budget, announced on the 28th February, broadly delivered what markets were looking for, but will have disappointed some expectations.

The year of the goat, which has just begun, looks likely to herald a major push by China to establish a new “Silk Road”, the adoption of a new five-year plan to boost the country's social and economic development and a pick-up in the pace of financial reform, according to Ross Teverson and Charles Sunnucks of the Jupiter Global Emerging Markets Team.

Bond yields may not have bottomed out, and negative yields are not necessarily a bad thing for certain investors, says Robeco's multi-asset investment head, Lukas Daalder.