Trick or treat? The UK and global economy face their Halloween ghosts

As the clocks fall back and the fog rolls in, the financial world finds itself wandering through a haunted corn maze of uncertainty. This Halloween, it's not just the young who are wary of what's lurking in the shadows – wealth managers and market professionals are tiptoeing past economic graveyards, wary of skeletons in the fiscal closet and monsters under the global growth bed. In the UK, the Chancellor's budget is the main event in this year's economic haunted house. The UK's public finances are creaking like the floorboards of a Victorian manor: borrowing is running £7.2bn above the ...