Debt

Gravis Capital Partners, which is set to create UK's first listed debt infrastructure fund, says it is likely to complete a successful IPO.

The UK gilt market rallied in the run-up to the Budget and while Osborne was giving his speech, but this initial growth spurt now seems to have moderated.

ASIA

Fears Hungary will be the next European country to suffer a debt crisis are unfounded, and simply based on "political rhetoric", say Axa strategists Raphael Gallardo and Sebastian Paris-Horvitz.

EMERGING MARKETS

Billionaire investor George Soros, the man who broke the Bank of England, says the financial crisis has "just entered Act II" as Europe's fiscal woes worsen.

Investors are placing bets on a Black Monday-style crash in the UK stock market at the fastest rate since the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, the Bank of England warns.

SILVER

UK INCOME

Japan's new premier, Naoto Kan, has warned Japan is at 'risk of collapse' under its huge debt pile.