Hints and tips:
...Mark Gregory and Vicky Jarman are stepping down from the board of UK gambling group Entain....
...Vicky Pryce: It depends on how you define stagnation....
...Philip Shaw: No....
...Vicky Pryce: Inflation is likely to still be above target- and handsomely so, by end 2022....
...Philip Shaw, chief economist at Investec: No....
...Vicky Pryce: Worse....
...Philip Shaw, chief economist, Investec Yes....
...Ashley Shaw is lovely, light and unfailingly expressive but Victoria Page needs to be a blazing talent (as Moira Shearer was) if we are to share her Svengali’s sense of waste when she abandons her precious...
...Vicky Pryce, former joint head of the UK Government Economic Service Wage growth will accelerate somewhat as skills shortages are already beginning to appear....
...Philip Shaw, chief economist, Investec It seems likely that rates will continue to rise over the next few years....
...Philip Shaw, chief economist, Investec Unfortunately no....
...Philip Shaw, chief economist, Investec Yes it should be. Inflation should begin to decline soon as the effects from sterling’s post referendum decline begin to fade....
...Philip Shaw, Chief Economist, Investec We consider that the UK economy is past the worst of the slowdown and should record a modestly firmer pace of expansion in 2018....
...Philip Shaw, chief economist, Investec More optimistic than 12 months ago. A little less pessimistic, if anything....
...Philip Shaw, chief economist, Investec The control of immigration is set to be a political red line in discussions with the European Council....
...Philip Shaw, chief economist, Investec Sterling’s depreciation has been material....
...Vicky Pryce, chief economic adviser, CEBR Hammond may well need to use the extra borrowing headroom of £29b he has allowed himself by the end of the Parliament’s term as the OBR’s economic forecasts may...
...Alan Clarke, economist at Scotiabank, said it was just a case of “delaying the inevitable” but Philip Shaw, economist at Investec, said the risks “of a sub-zero reading, while not impossible, have receded...
...Philip Shaw, chief economist, Investec Feel about the same as 12 months ago About the same — longer-term we would still see average GDP growth running modestly below where it would be had the UK voted...
...Philip Shaw, chief economist, Investec Very difficult to say — right now it is tough enough figuring out how a Trump presidency will even impact the US economy!...
...Philip Shaw, chief economist, Investec No....
...deals are gathering moderate momentum, but the MPC will be closely watching the winter and spring pay rounds for any evidence that awards are being held back by the very low rate of inflation,” said Philip Shaw...
...Vicky Pryce, chief economic adviser, CEBR I expect growth to slow down considerably, possibly to halve from 2016 growth rate to little over 1%....
...“March’s public finance figures bring some good news for the coalition parties in the run-up to the general election,” said Vicky Redwood, chief UK economist at Capital Economics....
...Vicky Pryce, Chief Economic Adviser, CEBR Lack of enough new build has been a long term problem keeping house prices up in the UK but there are large regional variations....
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