Economics / Markets

If you act like a lemming, be ready for a fall

Barclays' chief executive Antony Jenkins is to leave the bank as the board of directors calls for a change in leadership with a "new set of skills".

...why it's not like 2012 for investors, in five easy pieces

The FTSE 100 has opened 0.7% higher this morning after recording its worst monthly performance in three years in June.

Greece has failed to meet its International Monetary Fund (IMF) deadline for a €1.6bn repayment, hours after eurozone ministers refused to extend the country's bailout.

UK growth in the first quarter of 2015 stood at 0.4%, according to the third and final estimate from the Office for National Statistics.

European stocks are seeing heavy losses this morning and financial markets took a hit across Asia overnight as Greece said its stock exchange will be shut on Monday and banks closed all week after a decision by the European Central Bank (ECB) not to extend...

Interest rates in the UK could rise as early as August in response to a tightening labour market, according to Monetary Policy Committee member Martin Weale.

The month of May marked the end of the UK's brief spell of negative inflation, but advisers and investors are being warned to beware the result.

The FTSE 100 has opened 0.5% lower, with European stocks deeper in the red, after Greece's bailout talks with creditors broke down overnight.