By: Jessica Morris

I write about energy and industrials for City A.M. I'm particularly interested in geopolitics, energy policy and, of course, the ever lively oil markets.

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There are more women working than ever before

August 12, 2015

The number of women in employment soared to a joint record high according to data released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) today. "The employment rate for women (68.7 per cent) was the joint highest since comparable records began in 1971, partly due to ongoing changes to the state pension age for women resulting [...]
Bank of England deputy governor Ben Broadbent says “no urgency” to raise rates; would be “foolish” to pre-announce interest rate hike date

August 7, 2015

Bank of England (BoE) deputy governor Ben Broadbent has played down expectation that there could be a rate rise by the end of 2015. Mark Carney's second-in-command this morning said his boss's speech "did not say we can expect a rate rise around the turn of the year", adding it was "impossible" and "foolish" to pre-announce [...]
Super Thursday: Five key takes from the Bank of England’s inflation report

August 6, 2015

The Bank of England's first data dump landed with a thud today after both the minutes from its monthly interest rate meeting and its inflation report struck an unexpectedly dovish tone. Analysts had been expecting at least two members of the nine-strong monetary policy committee to vote for an interest rate rise for the first [...]
Zurich could “walk away” from RSA as profit rises

August 6, 2015

Swiss insurer Zurich's chief exec Martin Senn has told the Financial Times that it could "walk away" from its potential acquisition of UK rival RSA if the deal fails to meet its financial hurdles. The comments were made after RSA surprised the market with a better-than-expected set of results for the first half of this [...]
Bank of England Super Thursday: Website struggles under pressure

August 6, 2015

Bank of England governor Mark Carney and co's unprecedented data dump has heaped pressure onto the bank's servers, meaning users struggled to access its website at the stroke of noon. Rather than having a fortnight to digest the various releases, central bank watchers rushed to read the interest rate decision, minutes of the interest rate [...]
Bank of England: Taylor Wimpey, Persimmon and Barratt Developments share prices rise after not-so-super Thursday

August 6, 2015

Shares in housebuilders were boosted today after the Bank of England's historic "data dump" struck an unexpectedly dovish note. Taylor Wimpey shares rose 2.19 per cent to 200.5p per share, while Persimmon was 1.22 per cent higher at 2,079p per share and Barratt Developments was 1.4 per cent higher at 650p per share. Read more: Mortgage [...]
Super Thursday: Interest rate rise by the Bank of England could end the buy-to-let boom

August 6, 2015

It looks like momentum to raise interest rates could be building over at the Bank of England (BoE), however a legal advice service has warned this could spell disaster for the UK's booming buy-to-let market. Minutes due to be released later today are expected to show between two to three members of the nine-strong rate-setting [...]
Bank of England Super Thursday: Which monetary policy committee member could vote for an interest rate rise?

August 6, 2015

Economists, analysts and investors think the minutes of the Bank of England's monetary policy committee (MPC) meeting due out at midday could show the first minority dissent among the Bank's policymakers so far this year. But which members of the nine-strong MPC who could be itching to pull the trigger and hike rates? Martin Weale [...]
August 2015 TfL Tube strike: Boris Johnson still won’t commit to Night Tube launch date

August 5, 2015

London mayor Boris Johnson still won't commit to the Night Tube's September 12 start date. When pressed about whether it would be delivered in time for the widely anticipated start date during an interview on London radio station LBC, Boris said: "I'm not too fussed about the start date. I've said we'll get it in [...]
London Stock Exchange Group profit soars on integration of Russell Investments

August 5, 2015

Shares rose 2.44 per cent after the group's first half earnings were boosted by its recently acquired global indexes business FTSE-Russell. The figures The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) said pre-tax profit in the six months ending 30 June rose 20 per cent to £205.2m, mainly due to strong growth in its global indexes business FTSE-Russell. [...]

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