05 October 2017 Week in Brief:BUSINESS AND THE CITY BUMP ON THE ROAD: A little deflation to a British manufacturing success story. Brompton, makers of those so-elegant and useful folding bicycles, has had to initiate a recall of every bike it has made since April 2014. It has discovered a fault with an axle component… Continue reading Issue 123 :2017 10 05:Week in Brief Financial
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Issue 122:2017 09 28:Silly season of a Corbynista (Don Urquhart)
28 September 2017 Silly Season Diary of a Corbynista All roads lead to Brighton 6 September A document turns up in the Guardian offices. It claims to be a leaked Home Office immigration strategy. The nub of it is closing the doors to unskilled labour on the day we leave the European Union. It has… Continue reading Issue 122:2017 09 28:Silly season of a Corbynista (Don Urquhart)
Issue 105:2017 05 18:Week in Brief financial
18 May 2017 Week In Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY PENSIONED OFF: How can you run a profitable business and still go bust? Having an underfunded pension scheme is always a reliable way, as several British businesses have recently found out when trying to reorganise themselves. Latest is Tata Steel, the UK arm of the… Continue reading Issue 105:2017 05 18:Week in Brief financial
Issue 62:2016 07 14:Week in Brief (Financial)
14 July 2016 Week in Brief: Business and the City TATA REVIEWS DATA: In an abrupt and unexpected reversal of intent, Tata Steel have announced that they now do not intend to sell the Port Talbot steelworks in South Wales, which they announced earlier this year. The sale of the Scunthorpe plant which makes rail… Continue reading Issue 62:2016 07 14:Week in Brief (Financial)
Issue56:2016 06 02:What is your inflation rate? (Frank O’Nomics)
02 June 2016 What is your inflation rate? by Frank O’Nomics The government needs to find ways to make Tata Steel more attractive to potential buyers and one of the major hurdles to finding a buyer seems to be the deficit in the British Steel Pension Scheme, currently estimated at £700 million. As pension… Continue reading Issue56:2016 06 02:What is your inflation rate? (Frank O’Nomics)
Issue 49: 2016 04 14: Week in Brief: UK
14 April 2016 Week in Brief: UK EU REFERENDUM: Among this week’s points: Brexit campaigners are angry that the government is spending £9.2 million pounds on a pro EU leaflet to be delivered to 27,000,000 homes. Although the government claims that the leaflet merely responds to poll indications that the public want further information, the… Continue reading Issue 49: 2016 04 14: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 48: 2016 04 07:Week in Brief: Financial
07 April 2016 Week In Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY NOT A BLAST: The fall-out from Tata’s announcement that it will close its steel business in the UK if it cannot find a buyer continues to have major political and economic ramifications. These include China’s announcement of increased tariffs on the type of steel which… Continue reading Issue 48: 2016 04 07:Week in Brief: Financial
Issue 47: 2016 03 31: Week in Brief Financial
31 March 2016 Week in Brief: Business and the City GRIM NEWS FOR THE VALLEYS: 2015 was a terrible year for the British steel manufacturing industry. Battered by cheap Chinese and Indian imported steel, many UK plants making non-speciality steel gave up the struggle and closed down, with thousands of job losses. Now… Continue reading Issue 47: 2016 03 31: Week in Brief Financial
Issue 37: 2016 01 21:Week in Brief Financial
21 January 2016 Week in Brief:BUSINESS AND THE CITY STEEL DECLINES: Further bad news in the steel industry as Tata Steel announced a further 25%% permanent cut in its UK steel making capacity, taking its forecast production down to 3.5 million tonnes. The cuts this time are at its two major South Wales plants where… Continue reading Issue 37: 2016 01 21:Week in Brief Financial
Issue 6:2015 06 11:Business news
11 June 2015 BUSINESS AND THE CITY VANISHING BANKERS: Stuart Gulliver’s reshaping of HSBC has gathered pace. The long serving chief executive said that the bank will, over the next two years, cut 10% of its workforce – 25,000 jobs or more, of which around a third will be in the UK. Not only is… Continue reading Issue 6:2015 06 11:Business news
