Hints and tips:
...In the US, with a defence budget that has just surpassed a trillion dollars annually, unlocking the Bank of Uncle Sam is less of a problem....
...The first half of the year still looks set to be challenging to us as the pass-through of Bank of England policy continues....
...Just to kick us off, how surprised are you in the first place that a bank would take a decision like this and that you’d have a chief executive taking such a big risk of briefing a journalist about a private...
...For households, it’ll come down to wage settlements vs inflation....
...John Stanton, chairman of the Major League Baseball team, said there was “no excuse” for Mather’s comments....
...of England being the first central bank to raise rates....
...S4’s business is still tiny compared with WPP (revenues of £215m in 2019 vs WPP’s £13.2bn). But S4’s £2.7bn market value is, remarkably, a quarter of WPP’s....
...Diane Coyle: Probably, but it will also probably be too soon....
...Diane Coyle: Worse....
...Nathan Coe will become chief executive of UK-listed Auto Trader following Trevor Mather’s retirement after six years at the helm....
...Standard Chartered’s European M&A head David Harvey-Evers has left the bank and a replacement has not yet been appointed, Financial News reported....
...bank....
...That should show up in a mild pick-up in pay pressures during 2018 — probably more in the second half of the year than during the first....
...The Bank is also alive to bank lending, so the prospects for debt underpinning sustained consumption growth also seem constrained....
...It’s a challenge to measure it, but as the economist Diane Coyle points out, it’s a challenge to measure all of the data that we use to estimate GDP....
...Charles Dumas, Chief Economist, TS Lombard About 1.5 per cent, vs. US and EA both 2-2.5 per cent....
...of England like other central banks cuts back....
...First, the weight of services in our economies will continue to rise....
...Sterling is weakening vs dollar while strengthening vs euro so net not much there. Monetary policy will remain easy. Europe and US will both growth reasonably strongly....
...As the OIS curve steepens for next year in response to Bank Rate rises in the first half of the year, this will gradually increase total managed expenditure relative to the OBR’s forecast....
...I still keep in touch with both Stevan and the programme director as they really opened my eyes to what it was like to have career sponsors for the very first time....
...The main issue after the next election is whether there is more emphasis on tax-raising vs expenditure restraint....
..., consumption vs investment....
...Diane Coyle and Jonathan Haskel: Vickers’ critics are missing the point Having any bank that is “too big to fail” is bad for competition and bad for financial stability, write the economists and former Competition...
...A well-written teen romance, the first in a series....
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