Brazil remains a good old-fashioned emerging market play as global investors look for a hedge against surging commodity prices ...

If Andy Burnham was the head of a listed company, his financial trickery would by now have sparked a share-price slide, says Matthew Lynn ...

This year has brought a semiconductor boom for the ages. The US PHLX chip index has nearly doubled over the past 12 months. Investors, noticing that big US tech firms are planning nearly $1 trillion ...

NS&I has hiked interest rates on its fixed-rate savings products for the third consecutive time this year, making them some of the best on the market. The government-backed bank has increased the ...

The Rex in Manchester is a trendy new luxury hotel and private members' club. It isn't nicknamed The King of King Street for nothing.

The Bank of England has held interest rates at 3.75% today for the fifth consecutive time, but an increasing number of ...

The UK is grappling with stagnant growth and stubborn inflation, but will it tip over into recession? The latest World Economic Outlook from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) expects UK growth to ...

But these figures are from a high base. For context, Q2 special dividends have averaged £2.2bn over the last five years – ...

High taxes and the volatile financial and property market is hitting the wealthy, research from the Adam Smith Institute ...

Skipton Building Society has launched a new easy access savings account, paying a 5% AER variable interest rate. It is currently one of the best easy access rates on the market, although the account ...

The price of a litre of petrol is influenced by a number of factors, including wholesale costs, delivery, supplier margins. However, the largest chunk of the price of petrol in the UK is made up of ...

Millions of pensioners and savers may have received an unexpected tax bill over the summer from HMRC, under the taxman’s simple assessment system. Frozen tax thresholds mean more of people’s earnings ...