One year after Amber Rudd challenged the Big Six energy providers over pricing, there is still more to do to get a better deal for energy consumers May 31, 2016 One year ago, energy secretary Amber Rudd wrote to the Big Six to demand why hard-pressed consumers weren’t seeing bigger reductions in their gas and electricity bills. Fresh to her role in charge of the department for energy and climate change, she challenged suppliers to explain why they had failed to pass on significant wholesale [...]
How to prepare your portfolio for inflation December 2, 2016 Concerns about inflation were already on the rise. Donald Trump’s victory in the US election has further stoked expectations that price pressure, absent in most Western economies since the financial crisis, may make a return in 2017 and beyond. The basics Inflation is a measure of how fast the prices of goods and services [...]
How to prepare your portfolio for inflation December 2, 2016 Concerns about inflation were already on the rise. Donald Trump’s victory in the US election has further stoked expectations that price pressure, absent in most Western economies since the financial crisis, may make a return in 2017 and beyond. The basics Inflation is a measure of how fast the prices of goods and services are [...]
Crowdfunding platform SyndicateRoom teams up with London Stock Exchange to allow individual investors to participate in IPOs March 14, 2016 Crowdfunding platform SyndicateRoom has revealed a new tie-up with the London Stock Exchange (LSE) that will allow crowdfunding investors to participate in initial public offerings (IPOs) and placings on the main market of the LSE and AIM. The Cambridge-based equity crowdfunding platform, which is regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and has facilitated almost £50m [...]
CMA says BAA breakup shows how competition leads to benefits while adding further gains can be realised if runway capacity restraints can be lifted May 16, 2016 The breakup of BAA is an example of how competition can lead to benefits for business and personal customers, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has said, while adding further gains can be realised if runway capacity restraints can be lifted. The CMA published an evaluation of the decision to break up BAA, which found a [...]
EU membership matters to Britain’s advanced manufacturers – and it’s about far more than the Single Market June 1, 2016 A car consists of elements and components that have been sourced from right across the globe. The metal that forms the panels will have been quarried as an ore in one place, been through a foundry in another before being pressed into shape somewhere else. It will then be fitted with an engine that has [...]
Brussels attack: Belgian police release images of deadly Zaventem Airport attack suspect March 22, 2016 Belgian police have issued a wanted notice for a man suspected of involvement in this morning's deadly bomb attacks at the Zaventem Airport in Brussels. They issued a photograph of a man, dressed in white and wearing a hat, as he pushed a luggage trolley alongside two others. In a press conference, police said they believed the [...]
10 crazy ideas for the future of London housing which just came a step closer to reality October 12, 2015 Floating houses and homes on top of hospitals: these are just two radical ideas which are a step closer to becoming reality in London. They are just two of 10 concepts which have been chosen as winners in a search to find ideas for the future of housing in the capital and that help solve [...]
Acton, Earls Court, Old Oak Common and Nine Elms: These are London’s next 10 housebuilding hotspots October 7, 2015 The capital's supply of homes for sale – both new-builds and people putting their previously-loved properties on the market – continues to be pathetically low. But as the government attempts to increase the number of homes being built in the capital, parts of London are about to experience mini housebuilding revolutions. Knight Frank's Global Development Report highlights the areas where the biggest [...]
London mayoral election 2016: Conservative mayoral candidate Zac Goldsmith attacks Labour rival Sadiq Khan over housing record February 5, 2016 Labour mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan's affordable housing plans are a "fantasy", Conservative rival Zac Goldsmith will claim today. Goldsmith will point to new analysis showing that not one of London's 16 Labour-led councils have delivered Khan's target of having 50 per cent of all new-build homes qualifying as affordable housing. According to Goldsmith's campaign, the average [...]