Economics / Markets

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has held fire on its quantitative easing (QE) programme and kept interest rates at their historical low of 0.5%.

Philip Saunders and Max King from the Investec Global multi-asset team give their predictions for the year ahead.

Britain can expect an imminent market crash when building work on skyscraper The Shard near London Bridge is completed, according to Barclays Capital.

The UK economy has "significantly weakened" with domestic demand at a two-year low, but a recession is not inevitable, the latest quarterly survey by the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) concludes.

A quick scan of what your clients may have read in the nationals over the weekend...

Prime minister David Cameron has promised shareholders a binding vote on executive pay to try curbing excessive salaries.

Europe's single currency reached a 15-month low against the dollar following a French bond auction which saw almost all of the €8bn of debt targeted being sold.

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) has begun the process of compensating MF Global customers, with private customers with individual accounts the first to receive application forms.

The FTSE 100 opened flat on Wednesday after closing at its highest level for more than two months last night.

The US Federal Reserve is to start publishing forecasts of where it expects interest rates to be in the future in an effort to strengthen the economic recovery.