Economics / Markets

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.

INTEREST RATES

The price of oil could rocket to $200 a barrel this year, triggering a flash crash in stock markets, according to Rathbones' David Coombs.

A "disorderly" default in Greece could cause more than €1trn (£833bn) damage to the eurozone, a confidential report has warned.