Economics / Markets

The UK government is in advanced talks to sell a significant stake in the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) to Abu Dhabi.

Kames Capital is to waive the performance fee on its £65m UK Equity Absolute Return fund for the rest of the year, and will cut it in half from 2013 onwards.

FIVE THINGS

Ireland fell back into recession in the last quarter of 2011, according to official figures released on Thursday.

ONE-PAGE BUDGET

Frances Hudson, global thematic strategist at Standard Life Investments, on lessons unheeded from the 2008 financial crisis.

Q2 OUTLOOK

BUDGET

In a speech two minutes short of an hour, George Osborne at times sounded like a headmaster sending a young pupil out into the big wide world of work.

The Chancellor's full Budget statement said the UK recovery will be "particularly uneven" this year as the economy still faces three major threats.