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Pimco's Bill Gross opines Fed's plan may be too hasty, while Matthew Lynn says the world has reasons to worry.

Financial Stability Board sets up taskforce after Barclays, RBS and UBS settle with regulators.

Brazil's Dilma Rousseff and China's Xi Jinping discuss BRICS cooperation.

World's oldest financial institution says governments should take more central role in economic planning - and tackle public debt problem.

Markets under spell of possible Fed rollback of stimulus programme and China liquidity crunch.

Agreement to give renminbi liquidity to British firms dealing with China.

Daniel Stewart & Co's chief economist Alastair Winter previews the week ahead for markets, politics and economics

Markets fall to nine-month lows with Shanghai declining the most.

Possible QE rollback by US and indications of Chinese slowdown batter markets.

Al Noor Hospitals sold 38.5m shares, or a 32.9% stake, at an offer price of £5.75 each

EU finance ministers are in Luxembourg to discuss how and when Europe's bailout fund can rescue troubled banks.

Japan's banking giant pays quarter of a billion dollars for deleting information from $100bn in wire transfers relating to US sanctioned Iran

People's Bank of China asks state-owned banks to restart fund supplies to ease liquidity crunch.

3% drop is FTSE 100's biggest one-day fall in two years as investors fear QE tap to be turned off in US.

The Fed could begin pruning its asset buys, from $85bn to $70bn a month, this September.

The Fed could begin tapering its bond buys, from $85billion to $70billion a month, this September.

Strategists, economists and fund managers polled by CNBC expect the Fed to prune its bond buying this December.

FOMC will end its two-day meet later in the day and Fed chief Ben Bernanke is due to speak after the meet.

Value of exports rise 10.1% to 5.77tn yen, trade deficit widens to 993.9bn yen.

Investors will also track British CPI data and Germany's ZEW Economic Sentiment Index.

Nervousness to continue till the FOMC rate decision and Fed chief Ben Bernanke's speech, according to Barclays.

Investors to track Fed move on bond purchases and G8 summit.

Daniel Stewart & Co’s chief economist Alastair Winter previews the week ahead for markets, politics and economics

Markets waiting to take cues from Fed on asset purchases.

Markets in grip of discouraging economic data and US QE concerns.

With no positive economic data, most European indices decline in early trade.

Uncertainty over US bond purchases continues to cloud markets.

The Australian dollar bounces back but Malaysian Ringgit, Indian rupee and Japanese Yen remain weak

India will now struggle to plug its current account deficit in its economy.

Markets tracking output and retail data to be released by France, Italy and Denmark.