• August 6, 2024

UK retail sales pick up as summer finally heats up

Retail sales returned to growth in July after the long-awaited summer boost for retail finally arrived along with the warmer weather. Total retail sales increased by 0.5 per cent year on year in July,

  • August 5, 2024

How the Bank of Japan fuelled the market rout

Japanese equity markets suffered their worst day in decades as part of a global market sell-off fuelled in part by a long-awaited normalisation in Japan’s monetary policy. The Nikkei 225 lost 12.4 p