21 September 2017 Week In Brief: UK Brexit BREXIT BOUNCER: Boris Johnson has preempted the Prime Minister’s speech in Florence next Friday by publishing an article in The Daily Telegraph setting out his own vision for Brexit. The article which has drawn criticism from Amber Rudd for back seat driving, earned a swift rebuke from… Continue reading Issue 121: 2017 09 21: Week in Brief: UK
Tag: Inflation
Issue 120:2017 09 14:Low interest rates – a blip or the new normal? (Frank O’Nomics)
14 September 2017 Low interest rates – a blip or the new normal? When economic heavyweights disagree. by Frank O’Nomics. In a week in which UK inflation exceeded expectations, coming out at 2.9%, getting within a whisker of the point at which the Governor of the Bank of England and the Chancellor have to exchange… Continue reading Issue 120:2017 09 14:Low interest rates – a blip or the new normal? (Frank O’Nomics)
Issue 117: 2017 08 10: Week in Brief: UK
10 August 2017 Week in Brief: UK Brexit TRADING DISPUTES: The Department for International Trade is recruiting staff to deal with trading disputes after Brexit. The team, expected to comprise some 130 personnel, will not begin to operate until Britain leaves the Customs Union. FISHING: Speaking in Denmark, Michael Gove, the Environment Secretary, has said… Continue reading Issue 117: 2017 08 10: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 109: 2017 06 15: Week in Brief: UK
15 June 2017 Week in Brief: UK Fire HIGH RISE FIRE: Grenfell Tower, a 24 story residential block of flats in West Kensington, caught fire in the early hours of Wednesday. The block, which was built by the Kensington and Chelsea Borough Council in 1994 and refurbished last year, contained 120 flats. It was gutted… Continue reading Issue 109: 2017 06 15: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 105: 2017 05 18: Week in Brief: UK
18 May 2017 Week In Brief: UK Election news LABOUR MANIFESTO: Following leaks of a draft, the Labour manifesto was launched on Tuesday, pledging, amongst other things: that tuition fees and zero hour contracts would be scrapped and fracking for oil abolished; that the triple lock on pensions would be retained; that 10,000 new police… Continue reading Issue 105: 2017 05 18: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 97:2017 03 23: Week in Brief Financial
23 March 2017 Week in Brief: Business and the City WITHOUT A PADDLE: Thames Water have been fined £20 million for pumping almost one and a half billion litres of untreated sewage into the River Thames in 2013 and 2014, killing birds, fish and dragonflies and polluting the river, normally an attractive feature of Henley… Continue reading Issue 97:2017 03 23: Week in Brief Financial
Issue 79: 201611 10: The Economic and Market consequences of Donald Trump (Frank O’Nomics)
10 November 2016 The Economic and Market consequences of Donald Trump Will they be dwarfed by other developments? by Frank O’Nomics Let’s be clear from the outset. It is too early to reach any definitive conclusions about what the new President means for the US and global economies, or indeed for asset prices in general. It… Continue reading Issue 79: 201611 10: The Economic and Market consequences of Donald Trump (Frank O’Nomics)
Issue 76;2016 10 20:The inflation genie emerges (Frank O’Nomics)
20 October 2016 The inflation genie emerges How serious could UK inflation get and what can we do about it? by Frank O’Nomics Be careful what you wish for. After years of effort from the Bank of England to get inflation to return to their long-term target of 2%, it finally seems that price pressures… Continue reading Issue 76;2016 10 20:The inflation genie emerges (Frank O’Nomics)
Issue 75:2016 10 13: Would a flash-crash dash be rash? (Frank O’Nomics)
13 October 2016 Would a flash-crash dash be rash? Fat fingers, algorithms, skullduggery or a portent of doom? by Frank O’Nomics “The sky is falling!” shouted Chicken-Licken. “So sell Sky” responded Foxy-Loxy. That is the kind of response that would create a flash-crash; a concept which is back in the news after a dramatic short-term… Continue reading Issue 75:2016 10 13: Would a flash-crash dash be rash? (Frank O’Nomics)
Issue 67: 2016 08 18: Week in Brief: UK
18 August 2016 Week In Brief: UK Government POST-BREXIT FUNDING PLEDGE: Science University research and infrastructure projects will have their levels of EU funding guaranteed after Brexit under a Treasury plan which will cost £4 billion per year. Payments to farmers will also be guaranteed for four years. BREXIT DELAY: The government had been expected to… Continue reading Issue 67: 2016 08 18: Week in Brief: UK
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
