Economics / Markets

What’s in a name? Exploring the EM acronyms

Missing out: Are investors paying too much for certainty?

PA Portfolio: Are frontier markets a viable alternative to underperforming EMs?

European equities have been going full steam ahead so far this year, but has the ship sailed for slow to react investors?

Why are interest rates at crisis levels?

The official UK interest rate could settle at an average of 3% in a few years, the outgoing deputy governor of the Bank of England has predicted.

A row has broken out over the cost of setting up all of the public bodies needed in an independent Scotland.

Britain's two state-backed banks have retreated from lending to the London property market since the financial crisis, in a sign of caution amid fears of an inflating housing bubble.

The Treasury is expected to appeal to the UK's biggest banks to increase competition in lending to small and medium-sized businesses.

Sterling has fallen back below $1.69 after worse-than-expected borrowing figures disappointed those investors hoping for further confirmation the economy is back on track.