Clearly, the fiscal issues dominating the news at present are the US government shutdown and threat of default. We discuss the recent trends in the US and other advanced economies on pages 3- 4. But...

Headlines from the IMF meetings in Washington this week will be dominated by warnings of theconsequences of the US government defaulting on its debts and the US central bank exiting prematurelyfrom QE...

The markets are right to be concerned about the wider implications if the US Federal government is unable to service its debts. This would be uncharted territory and no-one can be sure exactly how...

Final business surveys for September, published by Markit this week, suggest that global manufacturinggrowth may have accelerated a bit relative to August. But steady global growth masks significant...