Labour needs to get excited about business – The City View September 28, 2015 Labour’s uneasy relationship with business has left scars on the party’s back, and this weekend old wounds were reopened as Jeremy Corbyn echoed his predecessor and launched an attack on Boots. Ed Miliband famously exchanged (verbal) blows with the global chief executive of the pharmacy giant, Stefano Pessina, back in February when the Boots boss [...]
Labour party torpedoes Trident debate in blow to Jeremy Corbyn September 28, 2015 Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was handed an embarrassing defeat yesterday afternoon, as his own party members voted against debating the renewal of the UK’s Trident nuclear weapons system. Corbyn has long campaigned against replacing Trident, and it had widely been expected that delegates at the Labour party’s annual conference in Brighton this week would vote [...]
SSI facing fuel shortage but still stays silent on plans for Redcar September 28, 2015 The owner of Redcar steel works could be forced to announce its plans for the future tomorrow, when it is expected to run out of fuel. Thai steel firm SSI suspended production at the plant last week, citing rising costs and a slump in demand. Almost 2,000 workers are awaiting more information from the company [...]
When will interest rates rise? Economists expect hold until mid-2016 September 28, 2015 The Bank of England is not expected to raise interest rates until the middle of 2016, according to new forecasts from the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR). It had previously expected a rise to come as soon as February. The think tank has blamed the push back on concerns over the global economy, [...]
UK to dodge spectre of secular stagnation as investment rises September 28, 2015 Britain is set to avoid falling into “secular stagnation” – low inflation and interest rates holding back investment in advanced economies – according to forecasting group the EY Item Club. The think tank has reported that business investment in the UK has performed relatively strongly since the economy emerged from recession at the end of [...]
EU referendum: Bosses speak out on European Union benefits September 28, 2015 Nearly two-thirds of directors say that the benefits of Britain remaining in the European Union outweigh the negatives, according to a new survey out today. The Institute of Directors (IoD) polled more than 1,200 of its members earlier this year, finding that 65 per cent of respondents agreed with the statement “from my organisation’s perspective, [...]
Lord Turner fires Corbyn-omics warning: Risks of Jeremy Corbyn’s People’s Quantitative Easing are huge September 28, 2015 City grandee Lord Turner has warned that the political risks associated with Jeremy Corbyn’s proposed “People’s Quantitative Easing” are huge. “The technical case for treating overt money finance as an available tool – if and when the conditions makes such stimulus appropriate – is incontrovertible,” Turner said in an interview published today. “But the political [...]
Banks at risk of legal action over the FCA’s new regulatory regime September 28, 2015 CITY lawyers are warning today that new regulations for top bank staff could spark an increase in the number of legal claims over firings. GQ Employment Law, a specialist employment law firm, says that the Senior Managers Regime, set to go into effect next March, may have unintended consequences. Under the new rules, senior managers [...]
Countryside Properties eyes up £1bn return to the stock market September 28, 2015 Housebuilder Countryside Properties is planning to return to the stock market with a £1bn float, over 10 years since it delisted. The company was bought for £222m in 2005 by a joint venture between HBOS, now Lloyds Banking Group, and the founder Alan Cherry. It was subsequently bought by US private equity firm Oaktree Capital [...]
Debenhams set for shareholder leadership coup September 28, 2015 Debenhams is facing further shareholder unrest, with several more of its biggest investors joining broker Cenkos in its attempts to unseat the retailer’s top bosses. Milestone Resources, Schroders and Old Mutual are said to have teamed up with Cenkos, which was last week revealed to be in talks with other shareholders about possibly replacing chairman [...]
