Midday Markets: The UK economy is a juxtapo-Britain Analysis The Midday Market report is a new newsletter from City AM, giving you fresh analysis on the biggest stories in the City straight into your inbox every lunchtime. Today, Ali Lyon weighs up what Tuesday’s IMF report says about the state of the UK economy. Sign up to the City AM News Updates newsletter here. [...]
FTSE 100 suffers worst single-day sell-off since May as banks brace for tax raid Markets The FTSE 100 has suffered its biggest single-day drop since May as European markets are hit by a continent-wide rout in the bond markets, which has pushed western government borrowing costs to multi-decade highs. London’s blue-chip index dropped by two per cent in early trading, erasing all its gains from the third quarter in a [...]
The great debt headache Economics Debt, debt, everywhere but not a drop to… add to any well balanced investment portfolio. The world is awash with government bonds thanks to the debt piled up during the pandemic. But the increase in interest rates alongside the most significant bout of inflation for four decades has left investors in a quandary. What interest [...]