28 January 2016 Week in Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY ROOMS TO RENT: 50 CENTS: Not if the Chancellor has anything to do with it. The Treasury produced squeals of pain and anger when it changed the tax regime on mortgages taken by private landlords to acquire buy-to-let property, limiting landlords on how much loan… Continue reading Issue 38: 2016 01 28: Week in Brief Financial
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Issue 29: 2015 11 19 Business news
19 November 2015 Week In Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY UP THE WORKERS: Good news for workers in the UK economy; after six years of falling or flat-lining real wages, average wage inflation was 1.9% in the year ended April 2015. In fact wages only rose by 1.8%, but as the economy saw deflation of… Continue reading Issue 29: 2015 11 19 Business news
Issue 28:2015 11 12: Missed opportunities
12 November 2015 Missed opportunities by Frank O’Nomics The Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, has been pilloried by some as being Mr Flip-Flop regarding UK interest rates. Having prepared the City for a rate rise via so-called “forward guidance”, the latest Bank of England Inflation Report suggests that rates could remain on… Continue reading Issue 28:2015 11 12: Missed opportunities
Issue 23: 2015 10 08: Week in Brief: CITY
08 October 2015 Week in Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY AN INSPECTOR CALLS: The Serious Fraud Office has announced that it is investigating actions instigated by the Bank of England during the early stages of the financial crisis in 2008 and 2009. The Bank of England has confirmed that several officials have voluntarily met officers from… Continue reading Issue 23: 2015 10 08: Week in Brief: CITY
Issue 18:2015 09 03:BUSINESS AND THE CITY
3 September 2015 Week in Brief :BUSINESS AND THE CITY PESTS: One of British commerce’s less known success stories is Rentokil Initial, a FTSE 250 company which specialises in office services of all types – from paper towel supply to rat catching to full facilities management. It had a long record, over 25 years,… Continue reading Issue 18:2015 09 03:BUSINESS AND THE CITY
Issue 13: 2015 07 30 Financial Week In Brief
30 July 2015 Week in Brief: BUSINESS & THE CITY SMART COP: Great Scotland Yard, historical home of the Metropolitan Police, though government offices for many years, has been sold by Galliard, a development firm, to Lulu Group International, the international business vehicle of Indian tycoon Yusuffali Kader. Galliard are converting the building to a… Continue reading Issue 13: 2015 07 30 Financial Week In Brief
Issue 12: 2015 07 23: Week in Brief: Business & the City
23 July 2014 Week in Brief: BUSINESS & THE CITY GREEK BANKS: Greek financial affairs have suddenly been relegated from the headlines, following the rescue package agreed last week which has led to their banks reopening on Monday, and enabling the central bank to make the delinquent IMF payments to take the country back out… Continue reading Issue 12: 2015 07 23: Week in Brief: Business & the City
Issue 10: 2015 07 09: Week in Brief: UK NEWS
09 July 2015 Week in Brief: UK NEWS BUDGET: Mr Osborne’s second budget for this year included measures and proposals to introduce a new living wage for those over 25, beginning at £7.20 an hour and rising to £9 an hour by 2020; to increase the personal allowance to £11,000 next year with a view… Continue reading Issue 10: 2015 07 09: Week in Brief: UK NEWS
