Economics / Markets

A wall of cash running to tens of billions of pounds could be about to flee from government bonds into the stock market, top investors have warned.

A pair of MPs have criticised the decision to award a knighthood to Hector Sants, the former chief executive of the Financial Services Authority (FSA).

Leaders on the country's biggest firms are more confident in an economic recovery than they were a year ago but have less faith in the Chancellor, latest polling has found.

Strong data from China and a deal to avert the US fiscal cliff have helped push the FTSE 100 past the 6,000 mark for the first time since July 2011.

A leading thinktank has urged the government to take drastic steps to stimulate economic growth in the UK, as another forecast a 50/50 chance of a triple-dip recession.

2013 PREDICTIONS

US President Barack Obama has praised a deal to prevent a "fiscal cliff" of spending cuts and taxation.

The UK economy may see little or no growth in 2013 in what could represent a 'groundhog year' for Britain, a thinktank has warned.

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