Economics / Markets

The City's two watchdog's the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Prudential Regulatory Authority (PRA) have publicly censured the Co-operative Bank failings including hiding the truth about its capital position.

Financial markets are "ripe for major decline" next year, according to a fund manager who forecast the dotcom bubble and 2008's global credit crisis.

Fund managers and economists have reacted to the surprise news that only one MPC member voted for a rate rise this month, saying the UK economy is 'not out of the woods yet'.

UK economic growth will slow down in the third quarter of the year, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research said, halving a previous estimate.

The Greek market has dropped 23% this morning as it reopened after a five week shutdown, implemented while the country battled to remain in the eurozone.

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UK GDP increased by 0.7% in the second quarter of 2015, according to the Office for National Statistics' initial reading, the tenth consecutive quarter of positive growth.

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Hawkish members of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) keen to begin edging up interest rates were cowed by the recent turmoil in Greece, its latest meeting minutes reveal.

Our weekly heads-up on the stories that may have caught your clients' attention over the weekend...