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Chief economist update: More manna from UK Treasury

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2021
Another budget, another increase in government spending. In his Budget speech on March 3, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak prefaced his delivery of more manna from the government by stressing the damage the coronavirus has done to the UK economy. ...

Chief economist update: More money for reimposed lockdown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2020
... - starting November 5 - have prompted the government and the Bank of England (BOE) into action. UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak announced the extension of the government's furlough scheme until 31 March 2021 and raised the upfront guarantee ...

Chief economist update: UK's winter of discontent

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2020
... gains made in containing COVID-19 infections are wasted. Not only that, it's gonna cost more. UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak has been forced to top up his "A Plan for Jobs" package announced in early July with the unveiling of a six-month ...

Chief economist update: Australia on top despite recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2020
... £745 billion - and declared that it stands ready to take further actions if necessary. In turn, the Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak announced a package of measures to support the labour market. Australia is a luckier country still.

Chief economist update: UK plans for jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2020
... billion - and declared that it stands ready to take further actions if necessary. More recently, the chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, announced a package of measures to support the labour market. "A Plan for Jobs" contained three basic initiatives ...

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 ...
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