Strong jobs growth continues as UK unemployment rate falls, but wage data show prices are rising much faster than pay packets again Record jobs growth has pushed unemployment to a five year low, official data showed on Wednesday, although …
The level of UK GDP is approximately 0.2pc above where it was in January 2008, according to The National Institute of Economic and Social Research Britain has reached the “symbolic milestone” of clawing back all the losses it suffered duri…
(Reuters) – This week’s light calendar gives investors room to digest the European Central Bank’s radical moves to avert deflation and look beyond U.S. data which, in more normal times, might imply higher interest rates. Global markets wil…
UK set for record year for IPOs as investors search for companies to benefit from returning consumer confidence. Britain is on track for a record year for flotation’s as companies press ahead with initial public offerings (IPOs) despite si…
(Reuters) – Investors have spent several months deciphering the mixed signals from the U.S. economy, and yet the S&P 500 has kept moving higher, slowly but surely, putting it just shy of the 2,000 mark. With its Friday close, the S&P would…
Pension savers will soon be able to take their entire fund as cash. But there will be no such freedom for those already retired – even if they have pitifully small annuities Robert Parker: ‘I’ve always felt giving me 24p a month defied com…
Expectations are running high that the European Central Bank (ECB) will loosen its monetary policy at its meeting on Thursday. Most expect at least a cut to the benchmark interest rate, while others say the ECB will go further. It is thoug…
Lloyds Banking Group has confirmed a decision to sell around 25% of retail lender TSB, enticing investors with the offer of free shares. The flotation is expected next month on the London Stock Exchange (Other OTC: LDNXF – news), following…