However, it now appears the US is following the lead of China. If the bill passes, it will shift wealth from the low-income to high-income earners, which will decrease consumption and increase savings ...

It is especially memorable for UK savers investing in the world’s largest market: the S&P 500 is up in dollar terms but a slumping greenback means that it lost 3.6 per cent in sterling terms. The ...

Wall Street fell on Monday as US President Donald Trump sent letters imposing 25 per cent tariffs on key trading partners, including Japan and South Korea, due to take effect on 1 August. Additional ...

If you have already retired when you downsize, the amount you can pay into your pension might be restricted to £10,000 a year by the money purchase annual allowance (MPAA). So downsizing just before ...

If breaking the fiscal rules isn’t an option, the government will have to find a way to stick to them. Recent U-turns suggest it will be politically difficult to push through further spending cuts, ...

Except for continental Europe, major equity markets were up: the Nikkei 225 increased by 6.6 per cent, the Nasdaq by 6.6 per cent, the S&P 500 by 5.1 per cent, the China 50 by 3.9 per cent, and the ...

Secondly, delays in customer payments and deferral of some energy projects in the new financial year have adversely impacted cash flows. Eneraqua’s management is seeking to ease the cash flow pressure ...

Windar Photonics (WPHO:49p) is a Danish technology company that develops cost-efficient and innovative Light Detection and ...

AH Futures and contracts-for-difference specialist Plus500 (PLUS) has announced 4 per cent revenue growth in the six months to 30 June, with its June quarter performance helping overcome falls in ...

When it comes to UK retail sales, the good news is that figures from the British Retail Consortium (BRC) have supported the indications provided by ONS releases over the past couple of months. The bad ...

Logistics is set to benefit from increased spend on defence and a boom in data centre demand; healthcare should be boosted by ageing demographics; and private rented residential property has low ...

European shares edged higher, with the Stoxx 600 up 0.4 per cent, Dax 0.61 per cent, and Cac up 0.21 per cent. Gains were led by semiconductor stocks after the US eased chip design export restrictions ...