By: Jake Cordell

I'm City A.M.'s economics reporter, looking at the news, stories and data that move markets in the UK, Europe and around the globe. I also cover broader developments in the business and political worlds at home and abroad.

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A plague on both your houses: MPs attack EU referendum campaigns

May 27, 2016

Both sides in the EU referendum campaign have faced the ire of one of Westminster's most feared MPs, head of the Treasury Select Committee (TSC) Andrew Tyrie, this afternoon. Tyrie, and the bipartisan TSC which includes campaigners on both sides of the debate, has attacked both sides for their shoddy use of statistics and blamed them [...]
Growth revised up as US heads towards rate hike

May 27, 2016

The US economy grew a little faster than first thought in the first three months of the year, though expansion was still sluggish at just 0.8 per cent on an annual rate. First estimates earlier this month suggested the economy grew by an even more miserly 0.5 per cent, but the upward revision should provide [...]
Vote Leave launches £50m Euro 2016 competition

May 27, 2016

A football guessing game with a £50m prize and free entry might sound like the sort of email that automatically lands in the spam folder. Even if not, most discerning folk would raise at least one eyebrow of scepticism at the prospect of guessing correctly the result of every one of the Euro 2016 matches. Whether you decided to [...]
Statistics watchdog slams Vote Leave for £350m a week claim

May 27, 2016

The UK's top statistician has blasted Brexit campaigners for sticking by misleading claims that the UK sends £350m a week to the EU saying it undermines trust in official statistics. Vote Leave have plastered the £350m figure across campaign literature and their battle bus. Email signatures of officials at the organisation even declare: "We send £350m [...]
EU referendum: Here’s the “positive case” for staying in the EU, according to David Cameron

May 27, 2016

When David Cameron set the date for the EU referendum back in February, he told the world you’d never catch him talking down Britain. A few months, some close opinion polls and a two slightly dodgy dossiers of Treasury analysis later, and that “positive case” for staying in the EU seems a distant memory. “Project Fear” [...]
World leaders declare Brexit a “serious risk to growth”

May 27, 2016

World leaders have said the possibility of the UK voting to leave the European Union poses one of the most serious risks to growth in the global economy. At the end of the second day of the G7 meeting in Japan, the leaders of the seven big industrial nations, plus the European Union, said: “A [...]
At the close: Little to report as FTSE 100 holds its own after strong week

May 26, 2016

It will take more than an immigration row and some disappointing business investment figures to shake the FTSE 100 this week, as equities clung on to monthly highs. The index closed up a touch at 6,265.65, with none of the UK's largest 100 companies having a day to remember or forget. The top climber – Intu Properties [...]
Hillary Clinton is the favourite, but one in six UK investors back Donald Trump

May 26, 2016

Donald Trump has left audiences aghast at his plans for what would happen should he win the keys to the White House later this year. Economically, politically and philosophically, analysts have said he is all over the place. A low-tax, small-government candidate, with a curiously protectionist economic agenda that would build metaphorical and literal walls around bits of the United States, [...]
Currency traders: Here’s what you can (and can’t) say according to a new global code of conduct

May 26, 2016

So toxic is the reputation of currency traders that an international watchdog has today published a list of dos and dont's in a vain attempt to whip the flash boys into shape. The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), often dubbed the central bank for central banks, has put together a lofty "FX global code" which sets out some basic behaviours [...]
Business investment dropped in the first quarter of the year due to Brexit and bear markets

May 26, 2016

Business investment slipped in the first three months of the year, as market volatility, shattered confidence and the EU referendum were all blamed for firms failing to dip their hands into their pockets. Investment by corporates fell by 0.5 per cent between January and March, following a two per cent contraction at the end of [...]

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