A round-up of the key stories across the specialist financial media, including news on George Osborne's budget
Tax grab on London’s top homes
George Osborne will on Wednesday stage a tax grab on London’s booming top-end property market, in a Budget which will offer significant cuts in the taxes paid by business and low- and middle-income families.
A counteroffensive of sorts may be under way this year in what has seemed like a one-sided global currency war as developing economies slow, western money-printing pauses and the heat comes out of pumped-up emerging market currencies.
China’s stocks rise on support measure prospects; Chalco climbs
China’s stocks rose for the third time in four days as speculation the government will introduce measure to bolster equities overshadowed concern the nation’s slowing economy will hurt profits.
