By: Harriet Green

I am City A.M.'s deputy business features editor. I look after the Entrepreneurs page, Alternative Finance and our Office Politics section. I also help out with the Forum, running our daily debate. I have a special interest in distributed ledger technology. Prior to working at City A.M., I ran a social enterprise.

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Royal Mail and CWU extend talks over pay and conditions

November 13, 2013

Recently privatised Royal Mail and the Communications Workers Union (CWU) have agreed to extend talks over workers pay and conditions by a week. In a joint statement released on Wednesday the two groups said: Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union have made significant progress in current talks on legal protections, industrial stability and pay. [...]
General Motors moves Asian headquarters to Singapore

November 13, 2013

General Motors (GM) has announced it it will be moving its international headquarters from Shanghai to Singapore in 2014. The move comes in the wake of of the company's decision to separate its Chinese operations from its international business. Singapore proved an attractive prospect, owing to its proximity to markets outside China. The city-state boasts [...]
Bank of England plays down faster fall in unemployment says Capital Economics

November 13, 2013

The latest Inflation Report from the Bank of england has provided "some sort of superficial support" for the notion that interest rates could rise sooner than has been expected, But research consultancy Capital Economics says that the disinflationary effects of spare capacity in the economy will "keep rates on hold for longer than markets anticipate." [...]
Slip in number of US mortgage applications

November 13, 2013

The number of mortgage applications in the US fell last week by 2.8 per cent, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). The MBA's seasonally adjusted index of mortgage application activity, which includes both refinancing and home purchase demand, fell 1.8 per cent in the week ending 13 November. Capital Economics has stressed that [...]
BG executive director steps down

November 13, 2013

BG group announced on Tuesday that executive director and chief operating officer, Martin Houston, has stepped down from the board and group executive committee with immediate effect. Mr Houston will retire from the oil and gas company by 31 December 2014. Executive vice president operations, Sami Iskander will take over the role of chief operating [...]
Bank of England upgrades growth forecast as it predicts unemployment threshold could be met by end of 2014

November 13, 2013

The Bank of England (BoE) has brought forward when it expects unemployment to fall to seven per cent by 18 months. It has also upgraded its growth forecast for 2013 from 1.4 per cent to 1.6 per cent and, for 2014, from 2.5 per cent to 2.8 per cent. Growth is set to get stronger, [...]
Eurozone industrial production falls by 0.5 per cent

November 13, 2013

Output in the Eurozone industrial sector declined by 0.5 per cent in September – more than the expected 0.3 per cent. This follows a rise of one per cent in August. Compared to September 2012, industrial production increased by 1.1 per cent in the euro area and by 1.2 per cent in the 28 EU [...]
UK unemployment falls to 7.6 per cent

November 13, 2013

The UK's unemployment rate fell to 7.6 per cent between July to September, pointing to a continued strengthening in the labour market. Analysts had expected it to remain unchanged at 7.7 per cent. The current rate of unemployment improvement would see the Bank of England's seven per cent threshold met in the fourth quarter of [...]
Spain sees deflation in October

November 13, 2013

Spain slid into deflation for the year ended in October. This was expected, following an estimate, and suggests the the European Central Bank may have been right to cut its main benchmark rate as the euro area continues to see weak demand and low price growth. Spain's consumer price growth dipped 0.1 per cent on [...]
Help to Buy boosts Barratt sales by 47 per cent

November 13, 2013

Barratt Developments has praised the government's Help to Buy scheme for playing a large role in the rising activity in the housing market, reportinga rise in private forward sales of 46.7 per cent, or £1.1bn, for the period of July to November. The company's interim management statement, released on Tuesday, said: The Government's Help to [...]

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