Action is still needed to improve the “apparent lack of conviction” of some boards who do not hold shares in the investment company they oversee, according to Canaccord Genuity’s latest ‘Skin in the Game’ report.
Private sector growth slipped back from the highs of January as the post-election bounce seen across the US economy was reined in.
More than half of chief executives are planning new alliances or joint ventures in 2017 to help bolster profits according to a new survey of the asset and wealth management industry.
Retail sales in the United Kingdom slipped in January to undershoot forecasts, according to the Office for National Statistics.
Investor confidence is bouncing back and rose for the third month in a row in February, Hargreaves Lansdown has found.
The Bank of England further undermined its own post-Brexit ‘forecasts of doom’ by sharply increasing its expectation for UK growth to 2% in 2017, professional investors said on Thursday.
Growth in the US economy slowed in the last three months of 2016 according to early estimates from the Bureau of Economic Analysis released on Friday.
Inflation in the United Kingdom economy climbed to 1.6% on an annualised basis in December, up significantly from 1.2% in November.
The International Monetary Fund has upgraded its growth forecast for the United Kingdom to 1.5% in 2017 from the 1.1% it was previously forecasting, despite the imminent start of Brexit talks.
The health of the United States economy was underlined with a steady picture for jobs in the latest employment figures released on Friday.
Eurozone inflation jumped to its highest level since 2013 between November and December 2016, bolstered by strong growth in energy and oil prices.
The UK economy grew faster than expected between July and September this year, with GDP climbing by 0.6% according to official figures.
