This week’s Budget from George Osborne offered a few surprises. With policies that picked off Labour’s better ideas, the chancellor was clearly aiming to strengthen the Conservative’s hold on power in the face of weakened opposition. From an investment perspective, the introduction of a ‘living wage’ will be more costly for some businesses but the aim seems to be to move towards a higher productivity, higher wage model. Stock markets appeared to like what they heard as the recent declines seen across the UK indices halted. Though with Grexit uncertainty still looming large, markets continue to trade nervously. Our small-cap expert Paul Scott did his own reader survey this week to find out how concerned investors really are - you can read up on the results here.

Elsewhere this week, we’ve been reading:

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