Fighting poverty - Crisis sounds alarm bells for society

AS European equities held steady yesterday key French and German politicians planned the latest round of interventions strategists say are needed to restore market equilibrium.

Hopefully, and it can be no more than a hope, this might restore some of the stability needed to encourage economic recovery.

At the same time British Prime Minister David Cameron was promising to “rebuild a broken society” and try to prevent a recurrence of the country’s worst riots in decades.