Euro also up against pound and dollar after initial drop
The UK economy will grow by 2.5% this year and again by 2.1% in 2015, according to the National Institute of Social and Economic Research (NIESR).
A respected think tank has raised its UK growth forecasts for this year and next but warned any recovery is dependent on consumer spending.
Legal & General Network (LGN) has confirmed plans to freeze its current charges for existing mortgage, protection and general insurance services until January 2014.
Fiona Murphy asks IFAs how government austerity measures have affected clients' retirement planning.
Unemployment has risen to 2.62 million people over the past quarter according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures released today.
Hargreaves Lansdown's Ben Yearsley says it is important investors retain a sense of perspective and look to the long-term following the sharp falls in global stock markets.
Old Mutual Asset Manager's Stuart Cowley and Fidelity's Trevor Greetham have clashed over the success of the measures being undertaken to aid the recoveries in the UK and US.
Politicians have been lining up to tell us how financially "difficult" 2011 will be, but nothing puts UK debt into perspective like the relentless building blocks of Tetris.
Newly elected Labour leader Ed Miliband used his first address to the party conference this afternoon to criticize the Coalition's deficit reduction strategy, and set out what changes Labour proposes for the economy.