Monday saw Asian stocks showing some improvement and becoming a fraction firmer. The change came after investors started focusing on the upbeat flow of US corporate earnings, just before a host of results, which are due for this week. The …

(Reuters) – World stocks inched up and U.S. bond yields steadied after almost three weeks of gains on Tuesday with Federal Reserve policy setters expected to end six years of aggressive monetary stimulus. The Fed kicks off a two-day meetin…

China’s manufacturing output grew at its fastest pace in more than two years in July, pointing that China’s economy may be stabilizing. The figures for July were promising. According to the National Bureau of Statistics; the official Purch…

Central bank’s head, Janet Yellen, confirms cessation of buying bonds in October after injection of £4.5 trillion over five years The US Federal Reserve has called time on its $4.5 trillion (£2.8tn) quantitative easing programme, introduce…

Recently the inflation rate in the United Kingdom has gone up with June seeing an increase in the prices of food and clothes. The consumer price index rose to 1.9% in the month of June from 1.5% in May. The expectation of an increase in th…

The US unemployment rate fell to its lowest level since 2008 on Friday, in a move hailed as a sign of progress by economists despite 9 million people remaining out of work. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) said that the unemployment ra…

Economists expect Bank of England’s quarterly health check of the UK economy to rubber stamp expectations that interest rates will remain low for longer. Interest rates will remain on hold beyond next year’s general election; the Bank of E…

After the end of the budget consultation on 11th June, the Treasury issued its response on the 21st July on pension shake-up, explaining pension changes, which offer a greater deal of freedom for both pension holders and providers. These p…

Source: http://credence-wealth.com/strong-dollar-squeezes-commodities-boj-puts-onus-on-ecb/ (Reuters) – The U.S. dollar powered to seven-year peaks against the yen on Monday and a two-year high on the euro, a punishing trend for commoditie…

The economic growth of a country comprises of a large number of different factors and a combined effect of all the factors makes the final impact. Similarly, in order to understand the economic growth of United Kingdom, it is important to …

What do active investors do? Active investors believe that markets are “inefficient”. They believe that, at any point in time, there are always some securities that are mis-priced, enabling them to buy or sell making a profit. Professional…

The United States global tax law; Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), came into effect on 1st July 2014. The FATCA is at last here after a period of 4 years, initially developed in 2010 as an approach to make America’s corporations…

July witnessed an addition of 209,000 jobs by US, showing that the US is on its course of economic recovery The manufacturing and professional business services sector witnessed the biggest job gains. There has also been a slight increase …

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The UK mortgage approvals did see an increase in June, after four months, but were still 12 percent lower than January highs. The UK mortgage approvals saw a rise in June, after declining from February to May; amid new stricter lending rul…

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The trading for the month of August ended on Friday the 29th, witnessing a rise in the global equity markets, reaching their peak in five months, since February. The rise was attributed to the strong U.S. data and German bond yields rising…

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SIPPS (Self InvestedPersonal Pension Scheme) UK pensions can often be built up over a career and may not be structured ideally for their owners. A Self Invested Personal Pension Scheme can be tailored to the owner’s requirements, with more…