The Government is poised to announce next week that “the long-term unemployed will be forced to do unpaid full-time work or lose their benefits”,…
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Work For The Dole Proposal
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Announcement On Help To Buy
September 29, 2013 By
Responding to George Osborne’s announcement on new Bank of England powers to rein in Help to Buy, Jeremy Blackburn, Head of Policy at RICS, said:
£36.9 Billion Paid Out In Bonuses
August 31, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Total bonus payments received across the whole economy during the financial year April 2012 to March 2013 were £36.9 billion, an increase of 1% compared with the same period in 2011/12. This equates to an average of around £1,400 per employee. Of the £36.9 billion paid in bonuses in 2012/13, £13.3 billion was paid in […]
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Gross Mortgage Lending Stronger Than A Year
August 22, 2013 By Leave a Comment
The Council of Mortgage Lenders estimates that total gross mortgage lending in July increased to £16.6 billion, representing a rise of 12% from £14.8…
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Rising Exports Brighten Outlook
August 12, 2013 By Leave a Comment
The UK’s trade deficit contracted in June to stand at £1.5 billion, compared to £2.6 billion in May, according to data released this morning by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). An £8.1bn deficit in goods was largely offset by a £6.5 billion surplus in services. Exports grew by 3.2% over the month, while imports […]
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Property Prices Rise To 3-Year Peak
August 11, 2013 By Leave a Comment
The pace of the housing market drove prices up to the highest level in three years, according to reports from mortgage lender Halifax. [Read more…]
Quantitative Easing Madness
August 2, 2013 By Leave a Comment
The Mysterious Madness Called QE Quantitative Easing (“money printing”). Investors love it. It’s an avalanche of liquidity that drives up the value of interest-sensitive investments. Everybody gets richer. Or so it seems. But the mere hint that the US central bank soon intends to cut back on this flood of easy money triggered the equivalent […]
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Investing in Bonds: Is It Crazy
July 2, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Most advisers say it’s crazy to invest in bonds. But then they would, wouldn’t they? Nearly all of them, and their clients, missed out on what has been one of the greatest bull markets in history for this asset class. According to BCA Research, since September 1981 the total return for holders of 30-year US […]
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Basic food crops evolved
July 1, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Basic food crops evolved over an unusually favourable period There will be increased weather instability, notably floods and droughts, but also steadily increasing heat. The climate is changing and becoming more hostile to farming. Grains have developed over many thousands of years in an unusually moderate and stable climate (moderate, that is, over a scale […]
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Multi-asset strategies essential
June 29, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Multi-asset strategies essential as volatility continues, say Barings – Barings’ annual study of best and worst performing asset classes shows sharp swings in performance – While European equities top the 2012 list, the class was one of the worst performing in 2011 and 2010 Annual research from Baring Asset Management (“Barings”) into the best and […]
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