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Vince for chancellor in a hung parliament?
London :: United Kingdom | 41 minutes ago
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It's an appointment that the markets might warm to Hot prospect: Vince Cable. Photograph: Rex Features/Rex Features On day two, the City did what it could have done on day one: it sold gilts. The yield on 10-year government debt rose 0.15 percentage...
Tags: hung parliament, United Kingdom, London, Citigroup, Gilt-edged securities, Vincent Cable, Business Finance, Pre-Budget Report, Government of the United Kingdom, Bank of England, The Economist
Trade gap turned lower in October
London :: United Kingdom | 1 day ago
Credibility The U.S. trade deficit was less than economists expected in October, dropping although it was predicted to rise, the Bureau of Economic Analysis said Thursday. In October, the trade gap dropped to $32.9 billion, down from the $35.6 billion trade gap in...
Tags: trade gap, U.S, trade deficit, Time Warner Inc., aol shares, AOL, trade data, Bank of England, جمهوري آذربايجان, رژيم صهيونيستي, United Kingdom, London, Business Finance, Macroeconomics, International trade, Balance of trade, Economy of Pakistan, Economic relations of Japan, Monetary policy, Time Warner, Quantitative easing, Import, Finance, Scrappage program, Inflation, Economy of Martinique, Online service providers, Economy of the United Kingdom, Economy of Tajikistan, International economics, AOL Radio
Build new out of the weckage of old: Darling plants seeds for the future
London :: United Kingdom | 1 day ago
Credibility Most of the last two years has been spent cleaning up an almighty mess: rescuing the banking system and dealing with our economy's over-reliance on financial services and property speculation. Now, at last, Darling is able to start planting the seeds...
Tags: Bank of England, quantitative easing, billion pounds, assets purchases, United Kingdom, London, Business Finance, Monetary policy, Macroeconomics, Inflation, Pound sterling, Public finance, Money, Economic policy, Gilt-edged securities, Recessions, Interest rate, Environment, Central banks, Bond market, Stephen Timms, Zero-carbon economy, Energy economics, Liberal Democrats, Bonds, Politics, Climate change, Government debt, Credit rating agency, Value added tax, Population ageing
Royal Mail predicts £10bn pension deficit
London :: United Kingdom | 1 day ago
Credibility Royal Mail predicts record £10bn pension deficit • Chief expects to face biggest shortfall in UK corporate history • Royal Mail profits up 4% to £184m in first half of year Royal Mail's pension black hole is expected to overtake those at other former...
Tags: The Royal Mail, pensions deficit, Bank of England, mail profits, profits rise, unofficial strikes, operating profits, pensions funding, United Kingdom, London, Business Finance, Postal system of the United Kingdom, Royal Mail, Labor, Social Issues, Pension, Postal organisations, Communication Workers Union, Adam Crozier, Human Interest, Royal Mail industrial disputes, Financial services, Investment, Spamming, Monetary policy, Retirement, Office for National Statistics, Employment compensation, Yahoo! Mail, Quantitative easing, E-mail spam
At a glance
London :: United Kingdom | 1 day ago
Credibility The UK remains in recession following six successive quarters of negative growth, and government borrowing remains at record levels. The chancellor has been forced to revise his expectations for economic growth as the recession has deepened. In last year's...
Tags: Dubai Financial Market, Burj Dubai, Bank of England, airbus a380s, asset purchases, United Arab Emirates, billion pounds, United Kingdom, London, Business Finance, Dubai, Emaar Properties, Investment companies, Deficit, Macroeconomics, Emirates, Developments in Dubai, Politics, Nakheel Properties, Monetary policy, Public finance, Central bank, Fiscal policy, Quantitative easing, Airbus A380, The Emirates Group, Late-2000s recession, Inflation, Recessions, Economic history of the United Kingdom, Stock market crashes
David Prosser: MPC's flagship policy running out of time
London :: United Kingdom | 1 day ago
Credibility Outlook While Alistair Darling only gets a crack at set-piece economic announcements twice a year, Mervyn King has a monthly opportunity via the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee to bring his influence to bear. We'll get the MPC's latest pronouncement...
Tags: monetary policy, Bank of England, MPC, United Kingdom, London, Business Finance, Inflation, Macroeconomics, Quantitative easing, Central banks, Monetary Policy Committee, Financial crisis of 2007￢ﾀﾓ2009, Money, Economic policy, Pound sterling, Recessions, Mervyn King, Central bank
Extra £5 notes for cash machines
London :: United Kingdom | 4 days ago
Credibility It will also ask shops to give out more fivers in change to meet demand from consumers for the note. While all UK cash machines must have the capacity to hold all denominations of notes, demand and efficiency means most only give out £10 and £20 notes.
Tags: United Kingdom, London, Sainsbury's, Automated teller machine, Business Finance, HSBC, United States dollar, Bank of England note issues, Sainsbury, Bank, Payment systems, Cheque, Bank of England
Bank of England to leave rates on hold
London :: United Kingdom | 4 days ago
Credibility Howard Archer, chief UK & European economist at IHS Global Insight, said both quantitative easing and interest rates seem odds on to be left unchanged...Archer suspects that the majority of MPC members would prefer not to increase QE again following November's...
Tags: Bank of England, United Kingdom, London, Central banks, Finance, Business Finance, Economic policy, Macroeconomics, Monetary policy, Quantitative easing, Monetary Policy Committee
David Prosser: Silence can be golden
London :: United Kingdom | 6 days ago
Credibility Outlook The former Monetary Policy Committee member David Blanchflower is a gift to critics of the Bank of England and its Governor, Mervyn King...It is strange that other ex-MPC members do not see things the same way. The economist Kate Barker, for example,...
Tags: MPC, Mr Blanchflower, United Kingdom, London, Lloyds Banking Group, Fellows of the Econometric Society, Kate Barker, Economists, Mervyn King, David Blanchflower, Bank of England, Monetary Policy Committee
Service sector recovery fails to ignite
London :: United Kingdom | 8 days ago
Credibility The purchasing managers’ index for services barely budged from a level of 56.9 in October to 56.6 in November, where a figure above 50 points signals an increase in reported business activity. The areas of the service sector covered by the survey – which...
Tags: Bank of England, Monetary Policy Committee, services sector, Spencer Dale, chief economist, United Kingdom, London, Business Finance, Macroeconomics, Monetary policy, Quantitative easing, Central banks, Inflation, Economic policy, Recessions, Purchasing Managers Index, Finance, Pound sterling, Economic growth, Asset price inflation, Economy of the United Kingdom, Value added tax, David Blanchflower, Economist, Federal Reserve System, HBOS, Late 2000s recession in Europe
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