Markets

A BlackRock employee has left the group after being found to have avoided £43,000 in train fares over the past five years.

The UK economy appears to be in rude health. In May, the Bank of England upgraded its growth forecasts for 2015 to 2.9%, from 2.7%, saying that the economy "has started to head back towards normal". It left its growth prediction for this year unchanged...

Almost 90% of active UK equity fund managers beat the benchmark index last year, far outstripping the performance of other active managers, an S&P Indices report has found.

The US economy created 209,000 new jobs in July, its sixth straight month of 200,000 plus jobs added to the economy, but nonetheless undershot forecasts.

The steady eddie water utility stocks should have been casualties of the improving economy. But this sector has outperformed the All-Share so far this year. Rathbones' Alan Dobbie explores this 'intriguing' performance.

The Royal Bank of Scotland said today its costs would be "significantly" impacted if an upcoming vote on Scottish independence sees the region break away from the rest of the UK.

The FTSE 100 is on course for its worst day in four months as nervous investors begin August in cautious mode.

The deep recession in the US and subsequent sluggish growth has led some experts to suggest the market is suffering economic hysteresis - or permanent damage to potential growth and employment, explains Robert Jukes from CGWM.

Following a bumper season for special dividends, capex growth has picked up substantially. The era of special dividends could be drawing to a close, explains AXA IM's Jamie Forbes-Wilson.

The FTSE 100 opened down slightly in early trading, with a host of financial stocks leading the fallers.