Saudi Arabia

With the price of Brent crude at a four-year low, all eyes are on how OPEC will react at its crucial meeting tomorrow. In the meantime, Premier's Chris White highlights the stocks to benefit from lower prices.

Old Mutual Global Investors' Global Equity Absolute Return (GEAR) strategy is nearing its maximum "comfortable" size, according to co-manager Ian Heslop.

Georgia, Senegal, and Ghana could be the next candidates to be upgraded to MSCI frontier market status, according to LGM Investments' Thomas Vester.

The sharp slides in oil prices seen since the summer could continue unabated until the commodity's chief trade body OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) is finally forced to take action, investors have said.

With globalisation under pressure, Samy Chaar, strategist at Lombard Odier Investment Management, asks if a new mantra of regionalisation and non-dollar currency trading could become the norm

Commodities

A US Senate investigation has uncovered how a "pervasively polluted" culture at HSBC and lax controls left it open to being used to launder dirty money from around the world.

Brent crude oil prices fell 1.1% to $123.53 to last night as it emerged leaders of developed economies are in talks to release emergency reserves to push fuel prices lower.

Oil prices edged back slightly from a three-week high on hints the world's largest oil producer is poised to boost output.