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Saturday 31st May 2008
Are We Heading For A Summer Of Discontent? Hot on the trail of news that NHS workers have voted to strike over an 8% three year pay deal, it looks as though Gordon Brown and the Labour Party are in for a summer of discontent. Over the last...
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Saturday 24th May 2008
Is The Oil Price Bubble Set To Burst? While it is views and opinions which make a market, if you speak to 10 different oil analysts you will get 10 different reasons for the ongoing rise in the price of oil. Increasing demand from... |
Saturday 24th May 2008
Is Gordon Brown Banking On An Economic Recovery? As the news continues to worsen for Gordon Brown there are many market analysts who are wondering exactly what will bring back the Labour voters, what can actually save Gordon Brown. There seems... |
Saturday 24th May 2008
UK Government Debt Rises As Inflation Picks Up While the situation with regards to rising national debt has already been covered in the popular press there are some issues which may have escaped the notice of observers. The recent rise in the... |
Friday 23rd May 2008
UK Economic Growth Set To Slow In 2008 And 2009 A recent survey by Reuters has shown that many analysts expect the slowdown in the UK economy to continue into 2009 although very few believe that it will actually turn into a full blown recession.... |
Thursday 22nd May 2008
Agency Staff And Full Time Staff Will Be Equal After a number of years in the making it seems as though the government, the unions and the CBI have come to an agreement about how agency workers are treat in the workplace. For many years some... |
Thursday 22nd May 2008
Darling Calls In The Supermarket Chiefs In a move which many believe should have happened some time ago, Chancellor Alistair Darling has called supermarket chiefs to Downing Street for talks about the growing problem of food price rises... |
Wednesday 21st May 2008
Bank Of England Minutes Show Inflation May Be The Main Threat While there are still some analysts in the stock market who are looking for a reduction in UK base rates, the minutes from the Bank of England meeting earlier this month showed a definite barrier... |
Wednesday 21st May 2008
Is The Retail Sector Getting Worse? After a number of years when growth was flying high and life on the high street was very lucrative, it seems that we are now entering a very different scenario. Retails sales for April are... |
Wednesday 21st May 2008
US Economy Growth Rates Under Pressure In a move which many believe the UK will follow in due course, the US Federal Reserve has cut forecasts for growth in the US economy from between 1.3% and 2% for 2008 to between 0.3% and 1.2%.... |
Tuesday 20th May 2008
Alex Salmond Calls For PFI Money He has criticised the style of funding, he has always claimed he would never embrace it, but as they say even a week is a long time in politics. That King of spin, Alex Salmond has backed down in... |
Tuesday 20th May 2008
Can Gordon Brown Turn The Economy Around Before The Next Election? Even though he thought about calling a snap election in 2007, Gordon Brown is unlikely to call the next election until the very last minute with many seeing 2010 as the only real choice. The... |
Tuesday 20th May 2008
Are Soaring Food Prices A Threat To The UK Economy? If you believe the government inflation figures then you might expect food inflation to be running at anything up to 4%. In reality we have seen a whole basket of food products show double digit... |
Monday 19th May 2008
Citigroup Announces Job Cuts In a move which was not totally unexpected it has been announced that US based Citigroup will be closing its Future Mortgages and CitiFinancial divisions in a move to cut the massive losses which... |
Monday 19th May 2008
ECB Claim The Credit Crunch Is Far From Over In line with the governor of the Bank of England, Jean-Claude Trichet, the president of the European Central Bank, has gone on record with his view that the credit crunch is far from over and... |
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Speculation has been mounting that further interest rate cuts will be announced by the Bank of England, after minutes from its previous meeting on cuts were released. They reveal that the Bank's n... 
