Markets don’t like uncertainty. The polls continue to suggest that the election result is far from certain in the UK and this is affecting the stock market and currency markets. The FTSE 100 index fell 1.63 per cent in March and Sterling has been weak against the dollar, falling 4.4 per cent in the last […]
At Money&Co., we really like and respect the coverage of CityA.M. Already a fine nespaper and website, it has risen to new heights under the stewardship of editor, David Hellier. But no-one’s perfect (least of all us). Below, Money&Co. CEO Nicola Horlick picks a bone (or two, or more than two, actually) with a recently […]
There is a risk that the UK may be heading for deflation for the first time since 1960. The inflation figures for February will be released on Tuesday and are likely to show that the annual rate of inflation fell from 0.3 per cent to 0.2 per cent, but it may have been as low […]
Money&Co. CEO, Nicola Horlick, yesterday examined the implications of low oil prices on US stocks and interest rates. Today, in the second part of her postcard from New York, she looks at the ramifications for UK lenders, investors and consumers. The fact that US interest rates are not likely to rise in the near term […]
Money&Co.’s CEO, Nicola Horlick, takes a look at the state of the markets from the American side of the Atlantic. Greetings from New York! The US stock market is focused on the oil price again and fell in the week on the back of a further slump in the crude price. The US crude price […]
Our CEO opines on a very significant, but largely unheralded, achievement in the SME sector. The Mittelstand has long been held up as a gem sitting in the midst of the German economy. There are 44,000 mid-sized companies in Germany with the vast majority remaining in family ownership. Collectively they employ 9.2 million people. […]
There was much excitement yesterday when the UK stockmarket finally reached a new all-time high. The FTSE 100 share index closed at 6950, beating its previous high of 6930, which was achieved on 22nd December 1999. There are a number of points to make about this so-called landmark. The first is that if the FTSE […]
The Bank of England published its quarterly ‘Inflation Report’ last week and the Governor, Mark Carney, said that inflation was expected to fall to zero later this year and that interest rates may be reduced below the current level of 0.5 per cent for a short period to help ensure that Britain does not enter […]
The news surrounding the British economy was extremely positive last year. Growth was extraordinarily good given the fact that the European Union is our largest trading partner and unemployment fell steadily. And yet, the budget deficit remained stubbornly high and the government has clearly failed to meet the promises it made in 2010 about deficit […]
As the European Central Bank tries to avert deflation and attempts to promote growth in the Eurozone through its 1.1 billion euro programme of quantitative easing (QE), UK manufacturers face a difficult outlook. The effect of Europe’s troubles has been to push down the value of the euro and this has been reinforced by the […]