Posted by FT Alphaville on Sep 11 22:51. FT markets round-up: "The FTSE All-World equity index rose 0.5 per cent after an Asia-Pacific stock barometer shed a meagre 0.03 per cent. Wall Street's S&P 500 ended the session with a 0.3 per cent advance to 1,433, moving back to within sight of a fresh four-and-a-half-year high. Commodities were more mixed. Copper recovered from initial losses to rise 0.3 per cent to $3.71 a pound after Wen Jiabao, China's premier, promised Beijing will do more to boost flagging growth in the world's second-biggest economy. Moody's is threatening to downgrade the US if the government doesn't arrive at long-term deal to reduce its deficits by the end of next year. Robert Shiller is teaming up with Barclays to create a series of US equity indices to "identify undervalued sectors by comparing stocks" long-term value in a way that looks through short-term swings in profitability,"reports the FT. A whistleblower at UBS was awarded $104m by the Internal Revenue Service for "providing the agency with insider information in UBS's illegal encouragement of secret offshore accounts by U.S. taxpayers," reports the WSJ. A quantitative easing timeline from Calculated Risk. US monetary policy... and gifs. Trust us, this is amazing. The US Treasury department takes a victory lap on AIG with an infographic-based blog post. This entry was posted by FT Alphaville on Tuesday, September 11th, 2012 at 22:51 and is filed under Uncategorised.