after several years of fairly hawkish behaviour towards Beijing. That involved Theresa May, at the time Prime Minister – three PM’s ago in February 2018. UK trade with China in the preceding year had reached £44.99 billion, with UK exports to China being slightly more than a third ...
most effectively protected as trade secrets. Consistent with the above, the UK has seen a significant increase in the need for nuanced and strategic legal advice on protecting these assets as trade secrets. This trend is unsurprising perhaps given that the UK has, from time to time, been ra...
As a western market, the UK needs to implement a more calibrated approach to understanding this change to avoid being muscled out of global trade, financial markets, and by measure of geopolitical influence. China will be a key part of post-Brexit strategy as will regional trade agreements ...
Each year the UKIPO publish facts and figures relating to the trade mark, patent and design filings of the previous calendar year. The 2022 figures have recently been released, and there are some intriguing patterns emerging. Overall, new application filings were down from record 2021 numbers but...
After two tumultuous years in UK-China relations, the UK has expressed its intention to revive and reset the relationships between the two countries. Controversy over allegations of human rights abuses in China's Xinjiang and trade disputes involving Europe and the U.S. have ...
An important part of succeeding as a commodities trader is to limit your losses. You don’t have to win every single trade, but you do have to prevent bad trades from wiping out all your profits. To do that, some traders place a stop loss order with every trade. With a stop loss, ...
Then, on the balance of probabilities, the algorithm will determine which way the asset is likely to move in the short-run. Naturally, the trend strategy employed by the software won’t always get its prediction right. As such, each trade will have an exit plan in place – notably in th...
2022, the Qingdao campus has fostered globally-minded musicians and a strong partnership with its UK counterpart through student and faculty exchanges. Marking the school’s first visit to the UK, he praised the students’ dedi...
Escalating trade tensions between the US and China have paved the way for increased safe-haven inflows. This has benefited gold prices, and experts believe that the yellow metal is within touching distance of breaching the $3,000 per ounce mark on COMEX. Gold prices on COMEX have already brea...
Nick Thomas-Symonds, Labour’s shadow trade secretary, said 2022 had been a “year of broken promises and failure on trade” from the government. “Promise to deliver a USA trade deal, broken. Promise of a trade deal with India by Diwali, broken. Promise to have 80 per cent of UK trad...