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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Prudentials pulls back from the UK open annuity market

June 20, 2016

Prudential will no longer offer annuities on the open market and only make them available to existing customers, stoking concerns it will hit individuals' ability to shop around for the best deal. The insurer said it'd stopped accepting applications for conventional annuities from non-existing customers though financial advisors on 17 June. It cited reduced demand [...]
Volkswagen’s former chief executive Martin Winterkorn is under investigation

June 20, 2016

German prosecutors said today that they've launched a probe into the former chief executive of Volkswagen over possible market manipulation in relation to the carmaker's emissions scandal. The investigation into Martin Winterkorn and another senior executive centres on "sufficient real signs" waited too long to disclose the potential financial damage of its wrong doings, prosecutors in the city of Braunschweig [...]
Base metals turn brighter as Remain campaign gains momentum

June 20, 2016

Reduced fears that Britain might vote to leave the European Union later this week added a sheen to copper and other base metals today. Copper steadied above a four-month low and nickel hit a six-week high as polls showed rising support for the Remain camp, however the overall picture is still one of an evenly split electorate. Read [...]
Oil back above $50 as polls dampen Brexit fears

June 20, 2016

Oil breached the $50 mark today, as fresh polls dampened fears that the Leave campaign would triumph in the EU referendum later this week. Three opinion polls ahead of the vote showed rising support for the Remain camp, however the overall picture is still one of an evenly split electorate. Campaigning resumed yesterday after a two-and-a-half day [...]
Brexit would throw automotive industry into jeopardy, SMMT warns

June 20, 2016

A leading industry body issued a stark warning about Brexit three days before the vote, saying it would throw the success of Britain's automakers into jeopardy. It would lead to "increasing costs, making our trading relationships uncertain and creating new barriers to our single biggest and most important market," Mike Hawes, chief executive of the society of motor manufacturers [...]
Baroness Sayeeda Warsi jumps ship from Leave to Remain as vote nears

June 19, 2016

Former Conservative Party chair Baroness Warsi has jumped ship from the Leave campaign to Remain just days before the EU referendum. A spokesperson for Leave lashed out, telling City A.M.: "Was she for Leave? We didn't realise." Warsi accused leading Leave campaigner and justice secretary Michael Gove of peddling "complete lies", while attacking Ukip's "breaking point" poster which depicts hundreds of [...]
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June 19, 2016

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UKIP’s migrant poster comes under fire from both EU referendum campaigns

June 19, 2016

Both the Leave and Remain sides of the EU referendum campaign levied strong criticism at Ukip's migration poster today. Prime minister David Cameron told an audience on BBC Question Time "there have been some moments like the Nigel Farage poster which I think are just wrong … it's an attempt to frighten people, to scare them [...]
Prime minister David Cameron’s Remain pleas met with hostility from the TV audience

June 19, 2016

Prime minister David Cameron made a last-ditch attempt to drum up support for the remain campaign today, but his pleas were met with hostility from the TV audience. Appearing on BBC Question Time four days before the vote, he was repeatedly thrown questions on immigration, and struggled to defend the government's target of cutting it to below 100,000. Cameron acknowledged that [...]
Luxury brands must adapt to slower growth, warns Italian designer label boss

June 19, 2016

The boss of one of Italy's leading luxury goods makers has warned there will be no let-up in the sector's slowdown, a scenario which firms must adapt to. Speaking before the Salvatore Ferragamo menswear show at Milan Men's fashion week, chief executive Michele Norsa told Reuters: "Growth will not be as strong as in past years, when the Chinese [...]

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