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Chief economist update: Brexit - the news that was

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020
... Who cares? At least now Brexit uncertainty has been removed (with or without a deal) and this time, backed by the UK Parliament at that. Bank of England (BOE) governor Mark Carney cares. In his speech at the BOE's Future of Inflation Targeting Conference ...

Chief economist update: Brexit uncertainty is not all that bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2019
... mouthing these words - reportedly ghost written for her by the government of the day (pun intended) - before the UK Parliament is moot, the fact remains that the Queen of the United Kingdom has all but given her imprimatur on Brexit come 31 October 2019. ...

UK loses £800bn in assets amid Brexit fears

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 8 JAN 2019
... the European and the British parliament to ratify it. If approved, the UK will leave the EU on 29 March 2019. The UK parliament will vote on Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal this month. EY UK financial services leader Omar Ali said as things ...

Chief economist update: So much Brexit uncertainty, so little time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2018
... expected tough negotiations with the EU, she didn't - in her wildest imagination - countenance that it's the UK Parliament that would be her bigger challenge with regards to Brexit, so much so, that she might be forced to exit the prime ministership ...

Inside Bennelong and its UK engine room

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2018
... wider consequences Brexit are mostly political, Thomas said. The largest question in the balance is whether the UK parliament can agree to a Brexit deal. "One of the advantages of our model is that we're small and nimble and we're able to quickly ...

Chief economist update: Three minutes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2018
... and forward guidance is best explained by Bank of England (BOE) governor Mark Carney. In his testimony before the UK Parliament's Treasury Committee, Carney remarked that, "...the financial markets have started to move with the underlying data so the ...

Two holds and a raise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 OCT 2017
Three of the world's biggest central banks will meet this week. The Bank of Japan (BOJ) had already started their monetary policy deliberations yesterday and is set to conclude later today. This is expected to be a non-event with policy unchanged and ...

Go ahead BOE, make my day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2017
Four days and one month before this day, the British pound staged a sterling rally - it soared to pre-Brexit levels against the US dollar and the Japanese yen (and to a two-month high against the strengthening euro). That was on 14 September when the ...

Clinton or Trump or bust?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2016
... win. But didn't the polls predict "Bremain" not "Brexit" not too long ago. But didn't the polls predict a "hung UK Parliament" in May's UK elections last year? But didn't the polls predict that Trump would be scratched from contention (also last year) ...

Bremorsing and Bregretting Brexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2016
... (https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/131215) that receives over 100,000 signatures must be considered for debate in the UK Parliament. At the time of this writing, the signature count is at 3,556,413 - up from 145,570 yesterday - and climbing. And ...
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