'Throwing in Woodford for headline value'
Mark Barnett criticised
The Chancellor, George Osborne, is taking legal action against the EU over plans to give a pan-European superviser far-reaching powers to ban or limit the short-selling of financial products, the Financial Times reports.
The number of shares out on loan in September has risen by the highest level in five years as investors reacted to market falls by taking more negative bets.
Cash flows into Japan equity funds last week were dominated by ETFs, with eight Japanese equity tracker funds pulling in $936.8m in the seven days to Wednesday, according to Lipper.
Knight Equity Markets head of ETF strategies Aaron Kehoe discusses what happens if shares covering short interest were all redeemed at once
City banks are being warned by police of a "real and ever-present" threat from the Real IRA.