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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2016
... provide an extra £250bn of funds if they ran short of US dollars, euros or yens. UK Exchequer on Brexit Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne ahd this to say about Brexit: "It is inevitable that Britain's economy is going to have to adjust to the ...

PIMCO appoints world leaders to advisory board

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2015
... Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke. The other board members are former UK Prime Minister and former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, and former European Central Bank president and chairman of the European group of the Trilateral Commission ...

'Brexit' betting booths now taking bets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2015
... thanking Mark Carney for his patience or he has more explaining to do in the letter he wrote to the Chancellor of the Exchequer last month because of what has happened to UK inflation - the annual rate of which has decelerated to 0.3% as at January (and ...

Catching the big wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2014
... has taken along the way towards challenging the domination of Uncle Sam's greens. Two days before, Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne revealed that the UK is in "active" negotiations with China to set up a clearing bank in London and that he ...

'Brownfield' infra better suited to pension funds

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
... on 'greenfield' risks, said European investor Antin Infrastructure Partners. Referring to British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne's recent ambitious plan to raise GBP 20bn from pension funds for 500 infrastructure projects, Mark Crosbie, managing ...

Philanthropy needs simpler support: Perpetual Private

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2012
... and in policy," Thomas said. The public treatment of private philanthropy is topical, with Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne using his budget speech in March to argue tax breaks to wealthy donors were overly generous and unfair. Osborne's ...

HSBC announces first int'l RMB bond

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2012
... sovereign territories. The move dovetailed with an initiative launched by George Osborne, British chancellor of the exchequer, to make London a centre for offshore RMB trade. "Today's event emphasises that we are not prepared to let anyone steal a march ...

Work in no progress

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011
... the world that the European saga will be over by 23 October. No one said it better back then than UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne when he announced that the weekend (of 22-23 October)"is the moment people are expecting something quite impressive" ...

Sounds like a plan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2011
... coming weekend (23 October) at the European Union summit in Brussels. The weekend that, according to UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, "is the moment people are expecting something quite impressive" because the European contingent "will ...

Tightrope walker

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
... fiscal austerity, the risk to Britain's economy is to the downside. Latest UK budget data show that the Chancellor of the Exchequer is losing its battle against fiscal austerity with government spending clocked doing a 4.6 per cent increase in the year ...