- Global stocks sink on fears that central banks will accelerate plans to tighten monetary policy
- Government bond yields remain at multi-year highs and the FTSE 100 tumbles 1.5pc
- Dow Jones plunges as much as 1.4pc despite bond market jitters easing
- Sell-off sparked by soaring wage growth in the US indicating that inflation will soon pick-up and force the hand of the Federal Reserve on rates
- Janet Yellen's Fed tenure may be the calm before the storm
- Bitcoin's plunge provided fresh impetus in the new week
- Lloyds Bank bans its customers from trading cryptocurrencies with its credit cards
- Want to sell Bitcoin? This is how long it will take (and how much it will cost)
- Services sector growth in January slumps to 16-month low
Global stocks have plunged after markets were spooked by fears that the world's top central banks will accelerate plans to raise interest rates to tackle climbing...