National obsession with house prices leads pontification on the demand outlook but the supply-side of the industry is where the real story is, argues Santander's Stephen Payne.
Stuck in 2% growth phase
Blake Hutchins, manager of the Investec UK Equity Income fund, has revealed a number of financial services companies are among his favoured holdings to provide sustainable, growing dividends.
Equity markets are in the red and headlines are screaming with stories about an implosion resulting from a global slowdown.
Focus on particular economic data points misses the extent of the change in China's economy in recent years.
Country's economy moved back into deflation last month.
Finding under-valued smaller stocks is often the biggest challenge for investors.
Equity market contagion is a familiar but often irrational phenomenon, which can be driven more by ill-defined fears than by sober analysis.
Renewed fears over China's slowdown have hit Japanese equity markets just as the country's reform programme comes under pressure, Hardeep Tawakley reports.
Index plunged by more than 20% from peak