Trading Trump October 25, 2017 | City Talk In recent months President Trump has reportedly been “hell bent” on imposing huge tariffs on steel imports to bolster domestic industries, despite warnings that doing so may spark a global trade war. Treading delicately as is his custom, ‘the Donald’ has also threatened to tear up the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta). Nafta does [...]
GDP, rate rises and Carney crying wolf October 25, 2017 | City Talk The ‘will they, won’t they’ speculation over whether the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) will hike interest rates for the first time in a decade will hit fever pitch today if economic growth figures point to a strong summer of growth. For the best part of a month, the City has been trying to work out [...]
