Economics / Markets

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has voted to keep the interest rate at 0.5%, marking three years of the record low figure.

JAPAN

Ratings agencies have refused to apologise for mistakes made in the run-up to the subprime mortgage crisis - and warned more errors could be made in the future.

US RECOVERY

Ministers have been urged by an influential committee to draw up a plan of action to help the country cope in the event of a eurozone collapse.

London & Capital's range of ten actively managed risk-graded portfolios have been added to the True Potential platform.

BUDGET 2012

Business secretary Vince Cable has urged the government to make failed bank Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) a state-run business lender.

Lehman Brothers has emerged from bankruptcy and is now a liquidating company that will begin the process of paying back its creditors and investors before finally being wound up.

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