Economics / Markets

The Bank of England is expected to pump another £50bn of quantitative easing into the UK economy today, in a bid to tackle the latest downturn.

Dawn Kendall, multi-manager at Architas, uses historical examples to pinpoint why the European monetary union is bound to fail in its present form.

Parents should be able to borrow money from the government to cover childcare costs, in a similar way to student loans, a thinktank has suggested.

A group of Bristolian traders have launched their own currency for the town, backed by the local council and a credit union.

It's our round-up of the stories your clients may have read in the national newspapers over the weekend...

The Bank of England will this week pump at least £50bn into the economy, according to a report in the Independent.

The pick of this week's articles on IFAonline...

A eurozone meltdown would plunge Britain back into a two-year recession and send unemployment soaring above 10%, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has warned.

Rob Gleeson, investment product consultant at FE, explains all you need to know about the various fund rating systems in the market

Alistair Darling, former Chancellor of the Exchequer, has criticised the move to single out ex-Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) chief Fred Goodwin by stripping him of his knighthood.