UK

UK unemployment has seen the sharpest quarterly rise in over two years, with the unemployment rising 80,000 to 2.51 million, according to the Office for National Statistics.

Britain's banks are directly responsible for more than a third of the country's economic slump since September 2008, official figures show.

Britain's economy grew at 0.2% for the second quarter, according to the first revision of the data by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

David Bower, head of marketing for iShares EMEA, unravels some of the misconceptions about exchange-traded instruments.