The US Federal Reserve rows back on the potential for interest rate cuts even as inflation improves. Meanwhile, the French election also reverberates through bond markets.

The year of the election is already providing warning signs to expect the unexpected. Even when outcomes aren’t a huge surprise, painful (if temporary) pitfalls may lie ahead.

There are plenty of promising companies under the radar aside from the most celebrated names – on both sides of the Atlantic.

Uncomfortable weather hangs over the UK and its markets as everyone waits for a sign of summer.

With the UK heading to the polls sooner than expected, the government announces policies that resonate with older voters. Meanwhile, disappointing inflation may have kiboshed a summer rate cut.

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The new tax year is a good time to take advantage of your annual allowances to give your savings and investments more opportunities to grow.

US economic data is softening, yet there seems a way to go before interest rates start to fall. On this side of the Atlantic it’s the complete opposite.

In his latest video update, Rathbones co-CIO Ed Smith discusses the continued, but lately slowing and more meandering, upward march in markets.

As the threat of VAT being added to independent school fees becomes more realistic, we understand that there has been a surge in interest in advanced fee payment schemes. For those independent schools in receipt of funds from such schemes, we look at the options to earn a monetary return on the cash before the associated expenditure falls due.

A run of weaker data is rekindling expectations of US interest rate cuts. They’re more likely to arrive on the other side of the Atlantic, yet even there risks of overoptimism remain.

We’ve been exploring the investment opportunities among oft-overlooked small and mid-sized companies.

The global economy may be finding its feet again