By: Jessica Morris

I write about energy and industrials for City A.M. I'm particularly interested in geopolitics, energy policy and, of course, the ever lively oil markets.

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Five ways to cut the price of your rail fare this summer: Advance tickets, ticket splitting, railcards, season tickets, price booking websites

June 12, 2015

Whether you're traversing the length and breadth of Britain this summer, or simply popping out for the day, rail fares can be exorbitant – so here are a few tips and tricks to help whittle down prices. 1. Get ahead Anyone who's sure about their travel dates can snap up advanced tickets – at least 12 weeks [...]
Labour’s Liz Kendall has “no problem” with a budget surplus

June 11, 2015

Labour leadership candidate Liz Kendall has said she has "no problem" with aiming for a budget surplus, a policy the government wants to enshrine in law, which commentators say is a political move designed to pressure the Labour party. Read more: UK budget since 1986: There has been deficits for 22 of 30 years "Labour should [...]
Two Cent and Ice Cubicle: These are your most infuriating colleagues, reimagined as rappers

June 11, 2015

Nobody likes an annoying colleague, and nobody wants to be one. Yet there's always someone who is constantly trying to peek at your screen; typing really, really loudly; cooking pungent foods such as fish in the shared microwave or firing off a load of questions just as everyone is desperate to get out of a [...]
South Korea cuts interest rate to record low amid Mers outbreak

June 11, 2015

South Korea has had to slash its benchmark interest rate to a record low amid a deadly outbreak of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (Mers). Bank of Korea cut its main interest rate by 0.25 per cent taking it to 1.5 per cent amid dampening domestic demand and slowing exports. "In particular, we are concerned [...]
UK Oil and Gas Investments’s share sale raises £6m

June 10, 2015

UK Oil and Gas Investments (UKOG) has raised £6m to fund its oil exploration in the Weald Basin. The Aim-listed company placed more than 200m ordinary shares at 2.25 pence per share. Ukog shares fell as much as six per cent to 2.35 pence per share in Tuesday trading, after the company confirmed it's in [...]
Bank of England Fair and Effective Markets Review: Tens of thousands more City workers to be covered by the senior managers regime

June 10, 2015

The Bank of England (BoE) today unveiled a set of tough new market rules which will increase individual responsibility among banks' senior managers and lengthen jail sentences for market abuse. Read more: Why the financial system has the same qualities as cancer Recommendations from The Fair and Effective Markets Review include extending the senior managers regime [...]
Government to begin selling remaining Royal Mail stake for £767m

June 10, 2015

The government is to begin selling off its final 30 per cent stake in in the Royal Mail in the next few days, after George Osborne announced the sale last week. Read more: Osborne must put taxpayer value over a rapid privatisation The sell-off, of 15 per cent of the business, is expected to raise [...]
Business sounds alarm over Osborne’s “fiscal straightjacket”

June 10, 2015

A respected business body has criticised the Tories' plans for strict fiscal rules – expected to be unveiled at the Chancellor's Mansion House speech later today – saying "no government should put itself in a fiscal straitjacket". Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne will use his major speech to the City to introduce a new law [...]
UK Oil and Gas timeline:

June 10, 2015

The Horse Hill site is located in the Weald Basin, an area spanning Sussex, Surrey, Kent, and Hampshire, which already produces oil leading some to refer to it as Britain's Dallas. April 9: UKOG says its discovered a site near Gatwick Airport that could hold up to 100bn barrels of oil – a figures that would [...]
Oil and gas fires up industrial production – but manufacturing output slides

June 10, 2015

Industrial output rose by 0.4 per cent in April, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), beating economists' forecasts of a 0.1 per cent rise. The bumper figure was driven by mining and quarrying which rose by 5.6 per cent – and this was helped along by oil and gas extraction which [...]

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