Hints and tips:
...The last thing I bought and loved was a selection of vintage coffee-table books on Louise Bourgeois, Cindy Sherman and Marlene Dumas....
...Or, as Brian Bouillon-Baker, one of her adopted sons, told Le Parisien: “She loved France, and France loved her back.” victor.mallet@ft.com...
...“This is the beginning of the end of the dollar’s monopoly in the world,” Vyacheslav Volodin, speaker of the Russian Duma lower house of parliament, said on Wednesday....
...Brian Coulton: It will take years of strong investment growth to make such a transformation....
...Brian Coulton, chief economist, Fitch Ratings We expect only a very marginal pick up in nominal wage growth....
...Charles Dumas, chief economist, TS Lombard At this point we are going for [a] 0.25 percentage point hike in August....
...Brian Coulton, chief economist, Fitch Ratings Unlikely because [capital expenditure] will fall....
...Brian Coulton, chief economist, Fitch Ratings Inflation is close to peaking but real wage growth will remain subdued....
...Charles Dumas, Chief Economist, TS Lombard About 1.5 per cent, vs. US and EA both 2-2.5 per cent....
...Charles Dumas, chief economist, TS Lombard Feel about the same as 12 months ago. Both sides of the Leave/Remain argument grossly exaggerate the long-term difference....
...Brian Hilliard, chief UK economist, Société Générale It should reach a peak of 3% by the end of 2017....
...Charles Dumas, chief economist, TS Lombard More optimistic than 12 months ago Better north/south balance, less low-income immigration making incomes more unequal Jan Eeckhout, professor of economics,...
...Brian Hilliard, chief UK economist, Société Générale The headroom, as calculated by the OBR is only 1.2% of GDP....
...Brian Hilliard, chief UK economist, Société Générale No....
...Brian Hilliard, chief UK economist, Société Générale We expect growth to fall to 1.4%. The economy has proved amazingly resilient to the Brexit uncertainty shock....
...Charles Dumas, Director, Lombard Street Research b) struggle to impose his planned spending cuts but revenues will remain on target or better The budget will, and should, remain in deficit....
...Brian Hilliard, Société Générale, Chief UK economist I expect the first increase in Q4 2016. The latest Inflation Report was very dovish, showing absolutely no urgency to start tightening....
...Charles Dumas, Director, Lombard Street Research Easily....
...Brian Hilliard, Société Générale, Chief UK economist That it is all domestically driven. That balance will not change next year....
...Charles Dumas, Director, Lombard Street Research Not very much on either account. The key thing in Europe is whether a country is in the euro or not — and Britain, fortunately, is not....
...Charles Dumas, Lombard Street Research: Unemployment is likely to rise under Plan A, with current QE methodology....
...Charles Dumas, Lombard Street Research: See above, answers to 2 and 3 above....
...Charles Dumas, Lombard Street Research: Very little. If the euro stays together it will be a beached whale, but will have a trade surplus with the UK and will want to keep free trade....
...Charles Dumas, Lombard Street Research: We will probably see lesser growth than the 1% average of the past three years....
...Charles Dumas, Lombard Street Research: It may change to a nominal growth target. This would have been appropriate in 1979....
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