Equity markets

Focus on particular economic data points misses the extent of the change in China's economy in recent years.

Country's economy moved back into deflation last month.

Finding under-valued smaller stocks is often the biggest challenge for investors.

Equity market contagion is a familiar but often irrational phenomenon, which can be driven more by ill-defined fears than by sober analysis.

Renewed fears over China's slowdown have hit Japanese equity markets just as the country's reform programme comes under pressure, Hardeep Tawakley reports.

Index plunged by more than 20% from peak

Data undershoots expectations again

Coram investment director and senior fund manager James Sullivan examines how the biggest drawdown of world reserves since 2008/9 could indicate fresh volatility for equity markets - should history repeat itself.

Investment Week asks managers for their view on 'Black Monday' and how they are protecting their portfolio amid ongoing market volatility

Joel Mittelman, portfolio strategist at the Boston Company Asset Management, looks at the sectors and stocks that are most sensitive to rising rates