Economics / Markets

Rick Eling, head of investment solutions at Sanlam UK, offers tips on protecting your clients' portfolios against inflation

Goldman Sachs will be referred to the US Department of Justice for allegedly making "misleading and inaccurate" comments to Congress over its role in the financial crisis.

M&G's bond manager Jim Leaviss has clashed with Artemis' James Foster over whether the MPC should raise interest rates.

European stock markets sunk into negative territory on Tuesday as concerns over the global economic recovery and an unnerving update on Japan's radiation crisis hit investor sentiment.

Iceland has said the UK will get back the money it paid out to customers when the Nordic country's banking system collapsed.

Inflation fell by 0.4% to 4% in March as the cost of food and drink lowered, but it is still double the Bank of England's target.

The IMF has cut growth expectations for the UK for this year to 1.7%, down 0.3% from its previous prediction in January.

Asian stocks declined the most in almost a month on Tuesday after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) cut its economic growth forecasts for the US and Japan.

The Japanese government has raised the severity of the crisis at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant to 7, a rating only previously applied following the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

Aviva is selling 15% of its stake in Delta Lloyd and will no longer be the majority shareholder in the Dutch insurer.