Last week’s Budget/Financial Statement will mean that many with shares who currently don’t, will...
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“Autumn Statement 2022: Key points at-a-glance”
Rather than rehash everything that will be in the headlines, I thought it might be helpful to...
“UK energy and food prices push inflation to 41-year high”
My memories of 1981 are of a great year, full of discos and Greek sunshine and friends. That was...
“Bank of England warns of longest recession in 100 years as it raises rates to 3%”
Remember the good old days, when growth was king, tax cuts and not tax rises were the order of the...
“UK interest rates: How high could they go?”
Rates are at 2.25%, and could double by next year. Bad news if you have a mortgage; but spare a...
“BoE raises interest rates to 1%”
So the Bank of England raises interest rates, telling us in the same Governor’s breath that we may...
“Interest rates rise again to counter higher prices”
Putting up interest rates to ‘control’ inflation is a blunt instrument at best. The theory is that...
“BoE raises base rate to 0.5 per cent”
Interest rates became the way to control inflation in the ‘80s. They wouldn’t have worked before...
“BoE holds rates but hints at rise towards 1% in 2022”
If you have a mortgage and you want something else to worry about, forget the Bank of England base...
“UK will not be a ‘rule-taker’, Andrew Bailey tells EU”
Quotes I had to drum into myself forty or more years ago for exams are, for some reason, still in...
“Bank of England holds rates as it pumps extra £150bn into economy”
Here’s why we’ll be OK for quite a while to come, investment-wise at least. It’s not just the dear...
“Negative interest rate debate becomes ‘very real’ as UK inflation plunges to 0.8%”
Negative interest rates? Really? Well, the theory is that if you have to pay the bank to look...
“Bank of England rate cut just before budget is perfectly timed”
Plenty of conspiracy theories around at the moment, most of them barking. China created the virus...
“Carney: Pound acting like emerging market currency”
To Brexiteers, Carney is yet another nay-saying Remoaner. Yet I’m afraid he’s right. If our £ is...
“Investors fear that the unwinding of QE is causing market turbulence”
‘The end of QE and its likely effects’ is much discussed at many of the fun investment manager...