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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Ex-MPC member Danny Blanchflower says rate rise would harm the UK

July 17, 2015

Former Bank of England policymaker Danny Blanchflower has warned that an interest rate rise in the near future would harm the UK. Read more: Carney fuels speculation of 2015 interest rate hike "It may well be that the Fed [US Federal Reserve] is going to put off raising so it seems rather strange that Carney is [...]
IMF’s Christine Lagarde says Greek plan not viable without debt reduction

July 17, 2015

IMF chief Christine Lagarde has said that the deal between Greece and its creditors will be "categorically" impossible without some form of debt relief. "The answer is quite categorically not," she said in response to questions on the viability of the €86bn (£59.8bn) three-year aid package on France's Europe1 radio station. Lagarde added any debt [...]
Dragon Oil share price falls while Elliott Advisors says Enoc offer undervalues company

July 17, 2015

Activist investor Elliott Advisors has become the latest Dragon Oil shareholder to say Emirates National Oil Company's (Enoc) takeover bid "substantially undervalues the company". Enoc, which owns 54 per cent of the Turkmenistan-focused oil producer, offered 750p per share in June. But Dragon Oil's second- and third-largest shareholders, Baillie Gifford and Setanta Asset Management, have said they want [...]
Got change? Here’s what the Bank of England’s £1m “giant” and £100m “titan” notes look like

July 16, 2015

The Bank of England has "giant" and "titan" bank notes, and they're worth £1m and £100m respectively. But you can forget day dreams of a cash machine accidentally dispensing one of these any time soon. While the high denotation bank notes aren't in circulation they're used to back the everyday value of notes issued by [...]
Four key takes from the ECB’s July presser

July 16, 2015

1. ECB has hiked ELA to Greece: Draghi confirmed that the European Central Bank will increase the amount of liquidity assistance available to Greek banks by €900m in one week. He said that approval of bridge financing, plus the Greek parliament's move to vote in favour of austerity rules outlined by its lenders drove the decision. [...]
ECB holds Eurozone interest rates

July 16, 2015

The European Central Bank (ECB) kept interest rates unchanged at records lows, at a meeting of its 25-member governing council today. "At today’s meeting the Governing Council of the ECB decided that the interest rate on the main refinancing operations and the interest rates on the marginal lending facility and the deposit facility will remain [...]
Sports Direct share price falls despite revenue rising 4.7 per cent

July 16, 2015

The figures Shares in Sports Direct fell 0.48 per cent to 731p per share in early morning trade. The company said group revenue rose 4.7 per cent to £2.83bn in the year to April 2015, from £2.71bn in 2014. It was helped by its "sports retail" and "brands" sectors, which rose 5.5 per cent and [...]
Moody’s sounds alarm over rising UK credit card debt leaving consumers unprepared for interest rate rises

July 16, 2015

Credit ratings agency Moody's has sounded the alarm over the rising level of UK consumer debt saying it leaves borrowers increasingly vulnerable to economic shocks. The new report on the risk of rising consumer debt in the UK, found unsecured lending such as credit cards and personal loans jumped to nearly seven per cent year-on-year [...]
Dragon oil share price falls as Enoc ramps up pressure

July 16, 2015

Enoc ramped up the pressure on the shareholders of its takeover target Dragon Oil by saying it needs
Anglo American share price falls as it books up to $4bn in writedowns in first half

July 16, 2015

Shares in miner Anglo American were tarnished this morning after it said it expects to book $3bn-$4bn in writedowns in the first half of this year, due to its iron ore operation in Brazil and some Australian coal assets. The FTSE 100-listed company, due to report its first half results next week, attributed the impairments to [...]

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