Hints and tips:
...Lee Hopley, Chief Economist, EEF, the manufacturers’ organisation There are a lot of ifs....
...Paul Mortimer-Lee, BNP Paribas The OBR is too pessimistic about this year’s likely out-turn and too optimistic about the improvement from 2010/11 to 2011/12....
...Gerard Lyons, Standard Chartered Clearly we should care; moreover, it is likely there will be significant local and regional variations in house prices....
...Colin Ellis, British Venture Capital Association I think the big risk here is from sovereign debt problems in the euro area....
...Gerard Lyons, Standard Chartered Emerging economies will be the key drivers of global growth....
...Paul Mortimer-Lee, BNP Paribas Globally, on average we are moving from recovery to expansion. But few countries are average....
...Gerard Lyons, Standard Chartered 1. Jobs. The UK labour market has proved more resilient in this recession than generally expected....
...Gerard Lyons, Standard Chartered I don’t think the Bank has lost control of inflation. And I don’t think it has lost credibility in its forecasting....
...Colin Ellis, British Venture Capital Association European debt problems worry me a lot....
...Colin Ellis, Daiwa Securities Define fairly valued!...
...Colin Ellis, Daiwa Securities The recovery still looks set to be anaemic to me....
...Gerard Lyons, Standard Chartered The world economy is in the early stages of a shift in the balance of power from the west to the east....
...Colin Ellis, Daiwa Securities I find myself stuck in the middle a bit here....
...Gerard Lyons, Standard Chartered The lesson of the last decade was not that the UK’s strong growth was an illusion....
...Gerard Lyons, Standard Chartered Risk one: This is a high risk....
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