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Economics

  • FTSE 100 dragged down by stocks trading ex-dividend as UK bonds hit new 14-year high

    markets

    Traders ditching companies that have yet to announce the details of their next shareholder giveaway dragged London markets lower today. The capital’s premier FTSE 100 index fell 0.27 per cent to 7,495.63 points, while the domestically-focused mid-cap FTSE 250, which is more aligned with the health of the UK economy, edged 0.09 per cent higher [...]

  • Historic inflation surge to swell UK debt interest bill to over £200bn

    uk economy

    A historic inflation surge is set to swell the UK’s debt interest bill to over £200bn, top economists have warned today. Britain’s public purse is set to come under intense pressure over the next two years that may cause the government to miss their borrowing fiscal rule, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). [...]

  • Russia has 38 per cent jump in energy export earnings this year: internal document

    PUTIN BOOST

    Reuters Higher oil export volumes, coupled with rising gas prices, will boost Russia’s earnings from energy exports to $337.5 billion this year, a 38% rise on 2021, according to an economy ministry document seen by Reuters. The jump in revenues, if it materialises, will help shore up Russia’s economy in the face of waves of [...]

  • Bank of England to launch another jumbo rate hike to tame over 10 per cent inflation

    August 17, 2022

    The Bank of England is set to launch a series of jumbo rate hikes to tame inflation that is beginning to be driven by domestic factors, City economists warned today. Prices climbed 10.1 per cent annually in July, the fastest acceleration since February 1982 and much higher than the Bank and analysts’ forecasts, according to [...]

  • Inflation overshoot spooks investors as FTSE 100 house builders tumble

    August 17, 2022

    London markets were shaken today by concerns that inflation is firming in the UK as housebuilders suffered heavy losses on the prospect of more rate hikes. The capital’s premier FTSE 100 index dropped 0.27 per cent lower to 7,515.75 points, while the domestically-focused mid-cap FTSE 250 index, which is more aligned with the health of [...]

  • Bank of England’s recession warning hits UK consumer confidence

    August 17, 2022

    Fears of a protracted recession as long as the one caused by the financial crisis is weighing on Brits’ optimism, a new survey released today showed. Consumer confidence dipped four points at the beginning of August, according to Bank of America. “Confidence remains weak, consistent with recession, and all components worsened,” the Wall Street giant [...]

  • High commodity prices boost bin collector Biffa’s recycling revenues

    August 17, 2022

    Waste collection company Biffa today posted “strong” financial results as high commodity prices bolstered the firm’s recycling business whilst offsetting far-reaching inflationary pressures.    The High Wycombe headquartered firm said it had cut its statutory losses by 57 per cent from £40.5m in 2021 to 17.6m in 2022. The stronger financial performance came as Biffa’s [...]

  • Easing China economy slowdown fears sends miners to top of London’s FTSE 100

    August 16, 2022

    Easing fears over a slowdown in the Chinese economy boosted London’s premier FTSE 100 index today. The FTSE 100 jumped 0.36 per cent to 7,536.06 points, while the mid-cap domestically-focused FTSE 250 index, which is more aligned with the health of the UK economy, fell 0.23 per cent to 20,336.41 points. Figures published earlier this [...]

  • Over half of money managers bet on global recession this year

    August 16, 2022

    Over half of investors are fretting over the global economy tumbling into recession this year, new figures released today show. Some 58 per cent of money managers think global output will shift into reverse, up from a minority of 47 per cent, according to Bank of America’s latest global fund managers’ survey. The latest reading [...]

  • Inflation deals record blow to UK workers’ living standards

    August 16, 2022

    Surging inflation has dealt a record blow to households’ wages in a sign the UK economy is tumbling into a sharp slowdown, official figures published today showed. Brits’ pay accounting for consumer price index inflation dropped 4.1 per cent over the last three months, the biggest drop since records began in 2001, according to the [...]

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