Alistair Darling has announced he will restrict higher-rate tax relief on pension contributions for people with incomes over £150,000 from April 2011.

Alistair Darling has pledged to help struggling small businesses, extending the scheme to allow loss-making companies to reclaim tax.

The UK economy will shrink by 3.5% during 2009, the Chancellor has predicted.

Skandia has removed George Luckraft from its Strategic Best Ideas fund following the news Axa Framlington is to close its Absolute Return UK fund.

Government borrowing rose by a record £90bn in the last financial year, according to figures released today.

Gross mortgage lending jumped 16% in March to £11.5bn, according to the latest figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML).

Professional Adviser's sister online title IFAonline will be providing in-depth coverage of today's Budget from 12.30pm.

IFAonline will be providing in-depth coverage of today's Budget from 12.30pm.

The FTSE 100 is hovering around the 4,000 mark in early trading, with Reed Elsevier , among the morning's biggest losers, down 4.81% to 475p after it warned earlier this week it expected its business-to-business publishing division to see profits fall...

Gordon Brown's scheme to help struggling borrowers avoid repossession by reducing their mortgage payments for two years has been shunned by major lenders, according to The Guardian .