Economics / Markets

The Confederation of British Industry and British Chambers of Commerce have each cut their 2012 UK GDP forecasts and called for the government to do more to prompt growth.

House prices rose by 1.3% in August, the largest monthly increase since January 2010, according to data released by Nationwide.

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Barclays has confirmed the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has started an investigation into payments between it and Qatar's sovereign wealth fund.

Henderson's Richard Pease has predicted a ‘stampede' into European equities as soon as the government bond bubble bursts and investors begin demanding better real returns.

The Spanish region of Catalonia has asked the central government for a €5bn pay-out to help the struggling region, amid the country's latest GDP data showing it is in a deeper recession than feared.

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