by Kiran Najran | Nov 29, 2018
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 figure of 3.5% was expected this time around. And so...
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by Kiran Najran | Nov 29, 2018
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 out without a deal. We expect sterling to significantly weaken...
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by Kiran Najran | Nov 29, 2018
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 if the UK crashes out of the EU without securing a deal....
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by Kiran Najran | Nov 29, 2018
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 the day by saying that the UK will be...
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by Christopher Nye | Nov 28, 2018
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 slide. The president said he would probably increase...
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