Hints and tips:
..., they have been inconsistent with store design unlike Aldi . . . and I don’t believe they have given their chief executives enough time or back-up to really learn the US market,” said industry veteran Phil...
...Michael Saunders: The UK economy will be pretty flat in the near term, with meagre positive growth for 2024 as a whole....
...Michael Saunders: Such comparisons are likely to be misleading....
...Rachael Saunders, of Business in the Community, Prime’s parent body, said that employers and society needed to adjust to the realities of an ageing population....
...Michael Saunders, Citi , Little effect either way: modest rise in housebuilding, modest subsidy to demand from HTB....
...Phil Clarke resigned as chief executive in July following a profit warning. Mr Lewis, a senior Unilever executive, was announced as his successor – the first outsider to lead the company....
...Michael Saunders, Citi, Unchanged: the MPC has said that to hike, they need above-trend growth, stronger pay growth and confirmation in price data that CPI inflation is on a path back to 2%....
...Michael Saunders, Citi, Revenues will be roughly in line with the OBR’s forecast and the fiscal deficit will continue to fall. The fiscal deficit is not a key issue for the UK in 2016....
...Michael Saunders, Citi, The UK economy has slowed, but is set for modest growth of 2-2.5%, with buoyant consumer spending but major headwinds from the strong pound and fiscal policy.”...
...Michael Saunders, Citi, Recovery is likely to remain unbalanced between solid domestic demand and weakness in net exports....
...Michael Saunders, Citi Pre-referendum uncertainty may cap business investment in 2016, but the adverse effect on the economy of a vote for Brexit in 2016 would be mainly felt in later years....
...Michael Saunders of Citi was alone in predicting very strong growth and even an improvement in the eurozone economy....
...Phil Thornton, Clarity Economics A referendum will create unnecessary uncertainty that will affect markets and, at the margin, lead to lower economic growth....
...Michael Saunders, Citi The jobless rate probably will hit the MPC’s estimate of full employment (5.1 per cent jobless rate) during 2015....
...Phil Thornton, Clarity Economics The squeeze on living standards will probably remain....
...Phil Thornton, Clarity Economics If inflation does start to rise again and wage growth continues to pick up then the MPC will probably start raise rates in the second half of 2015....
...Phil Thornton, Clarity Economics Depends who wins the election....
...Phil Bicknell, chief economist for the NFU, said farmers’ outlook for the next 12 months was “bleak”....
...“Manufacturers are making office chairs that are reactive and have fewer controls, so there’s less opportunity to sit in them incorrectly,” says Phil Hutchinson of BDG Architecture + Design....
...Michael Saunders, Citi: No effect on monetary or fiscal policies....
...Phil Thornton, Clarity Economics: The housing market looks like a rampaging bull in a fragile china shop....
...Michael Saunders, Citi: Plan A – to eliminate the structural current deficit by 2015 – was abandoned long ago....
...Michael Saunders, Citi: The jobless rate will probably fall below the 7 per cent threshold during 2014, ending the current guidance framework....
...Michael Saunders, Citi: The recovery will remain quite unbalanced in 2014 but recoveries in investment and exports are likely to offer a path to more balanced growth over time....
...Phil Rush, an economist at Nomura, said the figures showed that “the UK’s fate cannot decouple from the euro area’s”....
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