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...Retail investors Emmet Donegan, Nathan Brown, Joanne Ellis-Clarke and Alan Considine said they would fight the outcome of a judicial review over the Financial Service Compensation Scheme decision....
...Mr Rathi also served as private secretary to prime ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown between 2005 and 2008....
...Yet he ran scared of the Eurosceptic media and ducked a fight with chancellor Gordon Brown about joining the euro. And Washington was always the priority....
...Charles Nolan: Domestic uncertainty has held back investment lately....
...Barclays has hired Ken Brown as its chairman of equity capital markets in Europe and Middle East based in London....
...Numbers news Currency traders buy sterling on signs that a Brexit divorce deal is near....
...Charles Dumas, chief economist, TS Lombard Yes, but the 2017 real-income squeeze was partly offset by lower savings that should be restored in 2018....
...Charles Dumas, chief economist, TS Lombard At this point we are going for [a] 0.25 percentage point hike in August....
...Charles Dumas, Chief Economist, TS Lombard About 1.5 per cent, vs. US and EA both 2-2.5 per cent....
...Don Smith, chief investment officer, Brown Shipley More optimistic than 12 months ago....
...Charles Nolan, professor of economics, University of Glasgow It is difficult to see a strong upward trend in real wages asserting itself over the next year....
...Charles Nolan, professor of economics, University of Glasgow All the major forecasters now appear pretty gloomy about UK productivity growth prospects....
...Don Smith, chief investment officer, Brown Shipley Inflation looks likely to be on a rising trend through 2017, rising a little above 2.5% by Q4 as imported costs are passed through the inflation pipeline...
...“The rationale is that Brexit would be negative for global risk sentiment,” said Charles St Arnaud, FX strategist at Nomura....
...Don Smith, chief investment officer, Brown Shipley The resilience of the UK economy growth to the Brexit decision has so far surprised but even with the additional support from easier monetary policy and...
...Don Smith, chief investment officer, Brown Shipley Sterling appears less vulnerable in the wake of Donald Trump’s US Presidential Election victory....
...of a sharp weakening of sterling....
...His group’s effective campaigning did much to persuade Gordon Brown, chancellor at the time, to ditch euro entry plans in 2004....
...He looks back to the moment that Mr Brown left Downing Street for the last time in 2010....
...“It was the biggest piece of analysis we’ve done since the five tests,” said one ally of Chancellor George Osborne, referring to Gordon Brown’s 2003 euro study....
...Silver sterling multi-stone bracelet by Peyote Bird, £180, mrporter.com 6 With its Peruvian stripes, tassels and pretty fringing, this Sacai poncho is luxurious enough to see you from poolside to cocktail...
...Don Smith, chief investment officer, Brown Shipley More pessimistic than 12 months ago Less optimistic....
...The Voices Within, by Charles Fernyhough, Profile, RRP£16.99 The British psychologist combines scientific research and cultural history in this study of inner speech....
...Charles Dumas, Director, Lombard Street Research It could be marginally tighter, with rates up, though the appreciation of sterling is the chief form by which monetary conditions have tightened....
...Charles Dumas, Director, Lombard Street Research Easily....
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