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The UK's largest bond houses will meet Financial Services Secretary Lord Myners this week as the Treasury looks to accelerate growth in the private placement market.

Saltus's Dan Kemp on what investors should take away from Alistair Darling's third Budget.

Corporate bonds have recovered strongly over the last 12 months and we believe the recovery has further to run, albeit at a more moderate pace.

Following the strong performance demonstrated by most main risk assets during 2009, the start of 2010 saw volatility return to the markets.

Management teams of US companies appear to be in wait-and-see mode as they can still see several hurdles the economy needs to get over in order to ensure future growth.

The three main political parties have now all revealed their slogans to attract the electorate in the forthcoming elections and it will not be long before the official date is called - 6th May still looks favourite - and they publish their manifestos....

This week's panel discusses European equities and the impact of the Greek tragedy

Gartmore head of Asian equities says China is nowhere near ready to end its two-year peg on the dollar

Catherine Penman from property consultancy Carter Jonas says agricultural land, as an asset class, is growing in stature in the minds of professional investors

Many market commentators started the year tipping Japan as a contrarian, laggard equity investment for 2010.