By totting up global wealth, Oxfam’s report on inequality tells us little about either global poverty or income growth

To prevent panic buying and selling, the Chinese government is considering a “circuit breaker” mechanism

Measure of expected volatility in US equity markets reaches highest point since 2011

The world’s leading wearable technology company has extended its lead out front with an impressive first day of trading

Diamond company’s last mine in the 19th century diamond-rush town goes up for sale

The decline of 16 percent in 2014 is spurring fund managers to take their pick of Nigeria’s quality stocks, argues Elizabeth Ebi

World Finance speaks to the President of TradeNet – a leading equity order management company based in Saudi Arabia – to discuss what advice first-time traders in the emerging markets need

Pimco’s flagship Total Return Fund has been hit by hefty redemptions following the abrupt departure of co-founder and fund manager Bill Gross

Stability has returned to the global economy, although the sovereign debt crisis has left a marked impact on the credit quality of European Corporates

Glencore Xstrata’s Las Bambas project in Peru is set to go to a Chinese consortium and fetch almost $6bn in cash for the Anglo-Swiss multinational

The increase in metal production and subsequent lowering of price, in conjunction with high energy costs and hoarding investors, leaves the metal market bare

After a succession of fundamental changes to global demand and economic performance, copper prices have hit a seven-month high on the LME

World Finance interviews Lee Jim Leng, Lee Wai Sing, and Cheah King Fui from Hong Leong Investment Bank discuss capital markets in Malaysia

World Finance interviews Scott St John, MD and CEO of First NZ Capital, on the current mood in the New Zealand equities space

World Finance interviews Scott St John, MD and CEO of First NZ Capital, on how New Zealand’s capital markets reforms restored the financial industries to robust health