Jeremy Gaunt
LONDON, Nov 5 (Reuters) - World stocks slid on Thursday following the Federal Reserve's decision to keep interest rates near zero for "an extended period" and ahead of policy decisions by the European Central Bank and Bank of England. Full Article

Gordon Brown is truly having a rough time. Rebuffed by the United States, International Monetary Fund and others for floating the idea of a tax on financial transactions at this weekend's G20 meeting, he has now got short shrift from the Cayman Islands. Full Article

In July, Stella Dawson, Reuters' global treasury editor, posted some thoughts on what she called the Summer of LUV, a description of a three-pronged global economic recovery based on the idea of difference patterns in the United States, Europe and Asia. Since then her LUV thesis has been picked up widely. Here is her update. Full Article

Reuters is blogging live from the G20 meeting in St Andrews, Scotland. Finance ministers and central bankers will seek to firm up a plan to rebalance the world economy, aiming to beat out how to set national policy goals and make sure everyone keeps to them. In addition countries are expected to push individual concerns, from Brazil's about foreign exchange reserves to France's about bankers'bonuses. Full Article
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