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...Ruth Gregory, economist at consultancy Capital Economics, said she expected inflation to “climb steadily this year”, pointing out that in addition to the impact of the weaker pound, the effect of historic...
...Ruth Miller, economist at consultancy Capital Economics, said UK inflation was “back on an upward trend” while Victoria Clarke, economist at Investec, said a “bigger post-Brexit rise is to come”....
...Alan Clarke, an economist at Scotiabank, said the data were “miserable”, and Ruth Miller, economist at Capital Economics, said industry had “lost what little steam it had”....
...But Ruth Lea, chairman of Economists for Britain, denounced what she called “baseless scaremongering” and said that, given the UK’s yawning trade deficit with the rest of the EU, it would be in everyone’...
...Ruth Lea, Arbuthnot Banking Group, Economic Adviser There would be very little difference for 2016....
...Ruth Lea, Arbuthnot Banking Group, Economic Adviser I choose option [c]. Osborne seems to have the political will to cut as he has planned (this is a political judgment)....
...Ruth Lea, Arbuthnot Banking Group, Economic Adviser It should be reasonably easy to achieve decent growth in 2016....
...Ruth Lea, Arbuthnot Banking Group, Economic Adviser External factors, especially ongoing weakness in the Eurozone (note the UK is less exposed to emerging markets than some other countries, eg Germany)....
...Ruth Miller of Capital Economics, said that “given recent falls in oil prices, improving credit conditions and business and consumer confidence still strong, there are no obvious reasons why the economy...
...Ruth Lea, Arbuthnot Banking Group, Economic Adviser I do not expect the various measures to have much impact on the housing market....
...Howard Archer, chief UK economist at IHS Global Insight, said that the survey was “far from disastrous” and Ruth Miller, UK economist at consultancy Capital Economics, said that with low oil prices, improving...
...Ashwin Kumar, Director, Liverpool Economics I suspect that there will be tension between higher inflation and low wage growth which will lead to further delays to monetary tightening Ruth Lea, Arbuthnot...
...Ruth Miller, UK economist at consultancy Capital Economics, said the widening of the deficit in June “is likely to be the start of a further deterioration”....
...Ruth Lea, Arbuthnot Securities Average earnings should pick up to 2 per cent to 2.5 per cent next year and CPI inflation will probably be about 1 per cent, if oil prices continue weak, so real earnings...
...Ruth Lea, Arbuthnot Securities Given the implications for cuts in non-protected departmental spending, I would be amazed if the next Government (especially if Labour) stuck to the current plans....
...Ruth Lea, Arbuthnot Securities The unemployment rate was 6.0 per cent in August-October 2014 compared with 7.4 per cent in August-October 2013....
...Ruth Lea, Arbuthnot Securities Not really....
...Ruth Lea, Arbuthnot Securities I think it’s time the Bank began to start raising rates now....
...Ruth Lea, Arbuthnot Securities Yes. Household consumption demand will be supported by a modest pick-up in earnings growth and the very weak inflation outlook will boost real earnings....
...The reason for this high calibre is evident – RSHP founder Lord Richard Rogers, celebrated designer of the Centre Pompidou, is married to River Café co-founder Ruth Rogers....
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