The Chancellor delivered a boosterish budget, hailing a ‘new age of optimism’. Has the normally measured Rishi Sunak been drinking some of the Prime Minister’s Kool-Aid? Could the UK economy be over the worst?

Multi-national agreement is often hard won, but implementation can be even harder. Can COP 26 produce tangible long-term progress on climate change?

More lacklustre data from the UK emerged this week. Is the weakness temporary? Or have we seen the best of the UK’s revival?

Investors were stalked during September as the spectre of stagflation manifested itself against a backdrop of rising prices and lacklustre growth prospects.

Until recently, the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), which has responsibility for setting interest rates, was undecided if conditions were right for tightening monetary policy.

The UK consumer was due to drive the economic recovery, but it hasn’t worked out that way.

There has been a flurry of green bond issuance in Europe, does it solve the ESG problem for fixed income investors?

In a move designed to fund the spiralling cost of social care, the Government announced a controversial increase to National Insurance contributions…

The US Federal Reserve may start to reduce its stimulus measures sooner than expected…

As economic recovery starts to slow into a more normal pattern, is it bad news for over-inflated markets?