RBC economists said at the end of September that “growth in the second half of this year is likely to turn out significantly weaker than both we and the ECB had been expecting up to very recently”.

The potential escalation in the Middle East, and its impact on energy prices, drove up valuations for both BP (BP.) and Shell (SHEL), even though the latter oil & gas major recently announced a cut in ...

Productivity suffers when investment lags, yet this leads into the counter-argument for the role of the state. Disciples of economist John Maynard-Keynes assert government spending boosts aggregate ...

Shareholders of asset manager Schroders (SDR) will sympathise with this dilemma after a torrid couple of years. Punishing market conditions and a misfiring acquisitions policy have brought the share ...

It’s safe to assume that shareholders will approve his elevation to executive chair at the company’s annual general meeting in December and, if they do, he will be replaced as chief executive by ...

Lawyers representing 10 groups of plaintiffs, or 80,000 liability cases across the US, have backed the payout. There remain another few thousand cases not covered by the payout. GSK will also pay a ...

The risk is that it also heralds an upsurge in short-term trading, rather than long-term investing. Many newer users will have had their first taste of investing during the pandemic, but a penchant ...