The Bank of England today cut its growth forecast for this year to 0.8% from 1.2%. Problems in the euro zone were identified as the key reason - with the crisis seen as the main threat to the UK's recovery...

UK unemployment has recorded a surprise fall at a time when many analysts had expected the jobless rate to remain unchanged. Between January and March this year, unemployment fell by 45,000 to 2...

The true situation regarding retirement Britain is laid bare in the latest LV= State of Retirement Report. It shows 6.25 million Britons aged over-50 (28%) have no pension plan in place and look set to rely on just the state pension in retirement, a huge increase on the 1...

The number of men doing part-time jobs because they cannot find full-time work has more than doubled over the last four years, according to TUC analysis of official figures...

Here, Chris Towner, director of FX advisory services at currency specialist HiFX, considers the impact of Greece's potential exit from the euro zone...

Political upheaval is ushering in a change of focus for the euro zone, according to Paul Brain, manager of the Newton Global Dynamic Bond Fund. He said: "As we enter another round of anxiety regarding the euro zone, should we be more concerned this time?" asks Brain, "In some respects, the answer is ‘yes', as the economic situation seems to have worsened, and is now even affecting the core Northern European economies...

April saw a reversal of the English regional growth upturn seen in the previous month, according to the latest Lloyds TSB regional Purchasing Managers' Index...

Aim’s junior miners had a subdued start to the year, with strengthening metals prices contributing to only a 5% gain in Ernst & Young’s Mining Eye index from the previous quarter, underperforming the rest of the market...