Economics / Markets

What may have caught your clients' attention in our weekly weekend papers round-up...

UK manufacturing is suffering a poor end to 2015 amid "gathering gloom" from the global economy, according to industry body the EEF.

Extends QE to at least March 2017

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Standard Chartered were the weakest of Britain's seven largest lenders in a Bank of England stress test.

Gold looks set to suffer its biggest drop in price since 2013 amid intense speculation that the US is poised to raise interest rates.

Investors across the globe are holding their breath ahead of December's Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) meeting, to see if it raises the US interest rates. But is it that big a deal? Potentially. This is why...

Experts views on today's changes

Increase comes in from April 2016

U-turns on tax credit cuts

Improvements in Western relations and currency