The main release from the eurozone yesterday was the German inflation rate for November. It had been expected to fall to 2.4% from 2.5% the previous month, but it actually dropped to 2.3%. Last time, it hit a…
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After Jacob Rees-Mogg personally insulted the Bank of England Governor, Mark Carney, for daring to suggest that the UK’s withdrawal from the EU could have a negative impact on the economy, Carney defended the Bank’s analysis. Speaking on…
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Following his comments yesterday, the Bank of England’s Mark Carney was interviewed on Radio 4’s Today Programme where he was asked about the central bank’s latest Brexit analysis. Governor Carney said it was part of BoE’s job to…
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The headline release from America yesterday was the second estimate of the GDP growth rate for the third quarter of 2018. Last time around, figures showed that the economy grew by a whopping 4.2% and a more modest…
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Given the fact that the majority of the people reading this (and the person writing this) reside in the UK, we perhaps don’t give enough thought to the fact that the EU will suffer if the UK crashes…
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Towards the end of yesterday afternoon, the Bank of England published its latest stress tests and Brexit analysis. It is fair to say that the warnings were not great and we could be in for some tumultuous times…
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Another day, another gloomy assessment of the potential effects of the UK’s withdrawal from the EU. Actually, there were a few gloomy assessments to add to the ones we have already seen this week. Chancellor Philip Hammond began…
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On a day when the Apple CEO, Tim Cook, and Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter and advisor, visited schools in Idaho together, Donald Trump decided to ramp up trade war fears yet again and cause Apple’s shares to…
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