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Chief economist update: UK plans for jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2020
... of caution amid the lingering uncertainty surrounding the pandemic so much so that the Bank of England (BOE) and the Exchequer remain on their toes. While the BOE kept the bank rate unchanged at a record low 0.1% at its latest meeting in June, it increased ...

Chief economist update: The corona crash of 2020

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020
... 1.25%. The Bank of England (BOE) also slashed interest rates by 50 bps to 0.25%, and on top of that the Chancellor to the Exchequer announced emergency spending measures and infrastructure investment worth at least £30 billion (US$58.4 billion). Although ...

Aligned advisers return to UK

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2016
... Barton said the tentative step back into advice was driven by new pensions freedoms announced by then Chancellor the Exchequer George Osborne in the June 2015 Budget. The new measures meant that from April 6, instead of being required to buy an annuity ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2016
... markets that the BOE stand ready to 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 ...

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 ...

Governor Carney is no monkey

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2013

A long two-month wait

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2013

'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 ...