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UK pensions tapped to strengthen local startups

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2023
The UK Treasury has announced plans to consolidate the nation's pension fund sector and unlock £75 billion in retirement savings to back high-growth companies. Yesterday, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt delivered the Mansion House reforms and cited plans ...

US agencies act to prevent crisis

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 13 MAR 2023
... failure marks the second largest in US history by assets. A consortium led by The Bank of London has applied to the UK Treasury, the Bank of England and the board of Silicon Valley Bank UK to take over its UK operations, saying it "cannot be allowed ...

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: The cheaper alternative

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2020
... on March 11 and 15 bps on the 19th and increased its bond purchases by £200 billion to £645 billion - while the UK Treasury reportedly plans to spend as much as 15% worth of the UK's national output. To limited avail. But Johnson's draconian ...

Chief economist update: Coronavirus cures climate change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2020
Friday the 13th isn't so unlucky after all as it turned out to be a rally day on Wall Street. The S&P 500 index surged by 9.3% while the Dow and the Nasdaq pole-vaulted by 9.4% the day after US President Trump's declaration of a national emergency ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2016
... to the new situation we find ourselves in...It will not be plain sailing in the days ahead." Osborne added that the UK Treasury and other independent organisations' analysis identified three key challenges Britain faces in the aftermath of Brexit: "First ...

Lift-off on Carney's mind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015
... was what's in Bank of England (BOE) governor Mark Carney mind when, a day after news of the Greek deal, he told the UK Treasury select committee that: "The point at which interest rates may begin to rise is moving closer with the performance of the economy ...

Danger, Will Robinson!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
... contract by 1.3 per cent this year instead of rising by 0.5 per cent. The danger I speak of is the action taken by the UK Treasury in its annual budget. In unveiling the Kingdom's budget, Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling announced that the ...

Stagflation policy conundrum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2008
... England members, led by Governor Mervyn King, before the UK Parliament. King noted that since he last spoke before the UK Treasury Committee, inflation had risen significantly and that the growth outlook has deteriorated., adding that 'financial market ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2007
... fourth-largest home lender would be given a short-term credit line from the UK Financial Services Authority and the UK Treasury to allow it to maintain operations. "The Aussie, kiwi and all carry trade (currencies) got dumped on the back of that," Ms ...
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