Hints and tips:
...“It definitely won’t be straightforward to get money out of mainland China,” said Nigel Trayers, a restructuring and insolvency specialist at Grant Thornton in Hong Kong....
...Phil Thornton: If the mark of victory is achieving the 2 per cent target then that will more likely occur in 2025 than 2024....
...Phil Thornton: Hardly. The fiscal tightening will exert a large drag on the economy through 2024....
...Phil Thornton, director, Clarity Economics: Lag behind....
...Phil Thornton: There will be a lot of political noises about levelling up....
...Both had been the subject of apparently weak audits (by KPMG and Grant Thornton, respectively) that have so far gone unpunished by the FRC....
...Linda Yueh: Hopefully a bit better....
...Zhu joins from Lincoln International, an advisory firm, where Alantra has also poached Linda Wang and John Zhou to join the group. B Riley FBR has hired Alex Rohan from Guggenheim Securities....
...Phil Thornton, director, Clarity Economics Oh dear — we are back to Brexit....
...The bank stressed that an independent review led by retired High Court judge Dame Linda Dobbs would consider whether the issues relating to HBOS’ Reading unit had been properly investigated by Lloyds....
...Linda Yueh, adjunct professor of economics, London Business School A lot will depend on [the progress of the] Brexit negotiations....
...Phil Thornton, director, Clarity Economics Some but not much. See answer to question about consumption....
...Phil Thornton, director, Clarity Economics The pressure on consumer spending has come from a fall in real wages (as inflation has risen faster than wages)....
...Phil Thornton, Director, Clarity Economics I think the economy will slow in 2018 as the uncertainty created by the stop-start Brexit negotiations nags at consumer and business confidence and at investment...
...Phil Thornton, director, Clarity Economics More optimistic than 12 months ago....
...cent of the world’s population is facing barriers to reaching top jobs, that is huge untapped potential businesses are missing out on,” says Francesca Lagerberg, global leader for tax services at Grant Thornton...
...Phil Thornton, director, Clarity Economics Inflation will rise more sharply than it has as hedging contracts and firms ability to hold prices down to retain customers will both run out....
...Phil Thornton, director, Clarity Economics Growth is likely to fall to perhaps half the pace in 2016....
...Linda Yueh, adjunct professor of economics, London Business School The chances are that the MPC will not increase interest rates in 2017....
...Phil Thornton, director, Clarity Economics The direct impacts will be minimal....
...Phil Thornton, director, Clarity Economics The Chancellor has given himself an extra 2.5% of GDP that he could inject into the economy without breaking his fiscal rule....
...Phil Thornton, director, Clarity Economics Immigration is likely to rise as people who want to come to the UK will do so while they can....
...Linda Yueh, adjunct professor of economics, London Business School Feel about the same as 12 months ago Access to global markets is the key to the UK’s long-term economic prospects....
...For Trefor Griffith, partner at Grant Thornton, the raid on the British food larder indicates the UK’s inability to exploit brands internationally but also signals the openness of British business – something...
...Indeed, Linda Farish, R3’s north-east chair and director of recovery and insolvency at Newcastle-based accountants RMT, says it can be years after recovery starts before insolvency figures level off....
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