Market forces are changing the landscape savers face, with changes locally overshadowed by growing unease in the world's largest economy

Rising mortgage rates are more than offsetting falling prices at the affordable end of the housing market

Joseph Darby says rising costs have widened the gap between what a tenant pays and what their house costs to provide with the owner paying the difference. Why does the shortfall exist, and what's the return landlords need to justify it?

Brian Easton says the Government setting net debt targets for its fiscal management misses the bigger picture and fiscal sustainability should be favoured instead