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What may have caught your clients' attention in our weekly weekend papers round-up...

UK manufacturing is suffering a poor end to 2015 amid "gathering gloom" from the global economy, according to industry body the EEF.

The owners of independent advice firm Towry have brought forward plans for a sale, according to reports, quashing expectations of a stock market float for now.

In his last column of the year, Graham Bentley rails against what he sees as the corruption of sound academic theories by the industry in a bid to shift more products...

Drop is similar in non-advised arena as annuity sales slide

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Standard Chartered were the weakest of Britain's seven largest lenders in a Bank of England stress test.

Gold looks set to suffer its biggest drop in price since 2013 amid intense speculation that the US is poised to raise interest rates.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is considering raising the redress limit available to small business complainants from the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) above its current limit of £150,000.

Investors across the globe are holding their breath ahead of December's Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) meeting, to see if it raises the US interest rates. But is it that big a deal? Potentially. This is why...