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Bourses are ending the week on a nervous note as Wall Street ticks lower and participants keep a wary eye on events in Ukraine

It was a classic intervention from the ECB president: with a few words he altered the course of markets. But the risk is that they call his bluff

UK manufacturing outperforms in March, while Peru keeps rates on hold and Chinese inflation remains benign

Calculations of the size of economies potentially halved overnight the number of people who have been living on less than $1.25 a day

The reversal in long-term government borrowing costs reinforces a turnround for the Irish government as eurozone appetite returns

The country has some of the most liberal marijuana laws but some of the toughest on cigarettes, prompting legal action from Philip Morris