State-owned Royal Bank of Scotland is to payout around £500m in bonuses to its traders and investment bankers, despite a collapse in profits.
Investment Week |
07 Nov 2011
Unemployment in the UK increased by 114,000 for the three months to August to 2.57m people - the highest number since 1994, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Investment Week |
12 Oct 2011
The problems with the European debt market are a cause for concern for UK income funds that still have exposure to the banking sector.
Investment Week |
08 Oct 2011
Top managers talk to Kate Hollis, director, fund research at S&P Fund Services, about their outlook for the asset class.
Investment Week |
28 Jul 2011
The UK has spent the last few days discussing how to pay for retirement and old age.
Investment Week |
11 Jul 2011
The programme of US bond purchases, affectionately known as QE2, has only just ended, yet there are already calls in America for a new initiative (presumably to be known as QE3) to be introduced. QE is dead, long live QE!
Investment Week |
04 Jul 2011
At any point in time, the engine of economic growth depends on the strength of the four cylinders on which it is driven; the household sector, the banking sector, the government and the non-financial corporate sector.
Investment Week |
04 Jul 2011
If bankruptcy is the inability to raise all the money in tax or borrow the money you need to sustain your expenditures from commercial banks and bondholders, then Greece, effectively, went bankrupt last spring.
Investment Week |
24 Jun 2011
Various economists and critics of the government are demanding a Plan B. Just one year into a five-year plan of deficit reduction and growth they are worrying the growth rate is slowing.
Investment Week |
10 Jun 2011
Threadneedle’s Simon Brazier said UK equities are set to rise 17% in 2011 as favourable policies from government and reasonable valuations leave plenty of upside for shares.
Investment Week |
31 May 2011
One of the neglected figures from the UK government’s last Budget book is the figure for total borrowing between 2010 and 2015.
Investment Week |
27 May 2011
HSBC’s head of macro and investment strategy Philip Poole recounts his time in Latin America and the progress the region has made recently.
Investment Week |
06 May 2011
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