Harry Lange, manager of Fidelity Investments' $39.4 billion Magellan Fund, bought financial stocks including JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Bank of America Corp., leading to the fund's biggest monthly gain in five years.

The managers of the Montezuma Money Management fund met recently to talk about stocks. “Here's a Chinese mobile phone company,” one manager said. “They have 350 million subscribers. That's bigger than the entire population of the United States.”

NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - Stocks plunged in early Friday trading in line with markets in Europe and Asia but then recovered some ground, with investors looking to an imminent G7 finance ministers meeting in Washington, D.C. for a further policy response

A computerised display of the FTSE 100 index in London. Global share prices crumbled Friday and investor anxiety mounted as political wrangling blocked a deal to save the US finance sector, a big US bank collapsed and a European institution showed signs o

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