Too complacent on the UK recovery
The OBR is widely expected to revise up its UK growth predictions in Thursday’s Autumn Statement, but are bullish investors too complacent about Britain’s recovery?
The OBR is widely expected to revise up its UK growth predictions in Thursday’s Autumn Statement, but are bullish investors too complacent about Britain’s recovery?
Last month was the worst November for gold prices in more than 30 years, but investors pounced on the precious metals weakness to add to their positions.
Late November 2008, and that guy with the white beard came a little early that year with a merry gift of "up to $100bn" to boost the US housing market, and so began the modern age of quantitative easing.
The Bank of England has used its latest Inflation Report to soften its unemployment projections but has played down the move.
The UK’s rate of inflation has dropped from 2.7% to 2.2% – its lowest rate since September 2012.
With the property sector posting its strongest quarterly returns in three years and retail sales and wages on the up, are the foundations being laid for a retail property boom?
Raghuram Rajan inspired an outbreak of optimism when he took the reins as the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India. Economists now suggest that this is not merely irrational exuberance, and is grounded in realistic expectations of economic improvement.
It looks increasingly likely that tapering will be off the table in the US following the weaker than expected payrolls numbers.
City Financial is to launch an Asian macro fund in the first quarter of 2014 to be managed by Geoffrey Barker in a joint venture with the group's Hong Kong subsidiary.
The FTSE 100 has had its worst intraday fall since June, despite the fillip of a jump in retail sales.
I was at a clay pigeon shoot this week, and it was remarkable how everyone played down their own chances of winning, even those who had brought their own guns. It got me wondering if our national characteristic of self-deprecation informs what we say about targets for our own economy and markets.
The threat of high inflation has been a talking point for several months now, perhaps years, but how can you actually protect your portfolio from potential price rises?