09 March 2017 Week in Brief: UK BHS: Sir Philip Green has agreed to pay £363 million into the BHS pension scheme. Commentators have said that the payment was made in an attempt to salvage his reputation and to ensure that he would keep his knighthood. BREXIT: The Government suffered a defeat in the House… Continue reading Issue 95: 2017 03 09: Week in Brief: UK
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Issue 80: 2016 11 17: Week in Brief financial
17 November 2016 Week In Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY THERE IS A TIDE …: In an island such as Britain, surrounded by a restless sea, the urge to harness that power to create energy has long captivated entrepreneurs and inventors. The obvious place to begin is with tidal barrages, and a number have been… Continue reading Issue 80: 2016 11 17: Week in Brief financial
Issue 75:2016 10 13:Week In Brief BUSINESS AND THE CITY
13 October 2016 Week In Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY THE BIG PUSH: There is a touch of the First World War artillery barrage in the European Central Bank’s decision to extend its quantitative easing programme beyond March if inflation does not move towards the 2% target. It doesn’t seem to be working, but what… Continue reading Issue 75:2016 10 13:Week In Brief BUSINESS AND THE CITY
Issue 69: 2016 09 01: Week in Brief: UK
01 September Week in Brief: UK Politics IMMIGRATION: The total number of EU citizens living in Britain topped 3 million for the first time last year. Figures from the Office of National Statistics show the largest group as being 831,000 Poles which now exceeds the 795,000 British residents born in India. Net migration now stands at… Continue reading Issue 69: 2016 09 01: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 65: 2016 08 04: Week in Brief: UK
04 August 2016 Week in Brief: UK Government News HINKLEY POINT: The Government has postponed a decision on Hinkley Point C pending a further review. The announcement, which was made just before the deal was due to be signed, took the energy industry by surprise. It is understood that EDF, the French company which was… Continue reading Issue 65: 2016 08 04: Week in Brief: UK
Issue58:2016 06 16: Week in Brief Financial
16 June 2016 Week in Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY ASDA PRICE: The sack, it seems, is the ASDA price for its UK chief executive Andy Clarke. Walmart, who owns the UK big four grocer and supermarket chain, announced the change early this week, a shock apparently for Mr Clarke, an ASDA long-termer. Just… Continue reading Issue58:2016 06 16: Week in Brief Financial
Issue 53:2016 05 12: The hazards of pension protection (Frank O’Nomics)
12 May 2016 The hazards of pension protection by Frank O’Nomics News of the failure of BHS, and the consequent takeover of a pension fund that is £571 million in deficit by the Pension Protection Fund, raises questions which go to the very essence of the way in which PPF operates. To begin with, is… Continue reading Issue 53:2016 05 12: The hazards of pension protection (Frank O’Nomics)
Issue 52: 2016 05 05: Week in Brief: UK
05 May 2016 Week in Brief: UK EU Referendum VOTE LEAVE RESIGNATION: Labour donor John Mills has left the Vote Leave campaign to set up a separate group for Labour supporters favouring Brexit. He was dissatisfied by the attitude of Vote Leave to members of the Party. CLINTON AND BLAIR: If the exigencies of… Continue reading Issue 52: 2016 05 05: Week in Brief: UK
