The initial global market reaction to the UK Brexit vote was very negative and in our view overdone. Nevertheless, we expect the uncertainty to linger for a while, with the vote having refocused investors on existing vulnerabilities in the world economy. Our new forecasts see the main negative...
The UK and EU agreed to put the protocol in place after Brexit to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland. Lorries can continue to cross the border from Northern Ireland into the Republic without having paperwork and goods checked - as they did when the U...
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What the inflation data did was slightly hit market expectations for UK interest rate cuts this year, as we've been reporting. Higher interest rates tend to be supportive of a domestic currency's value. What's coming up in the Money blog this morning ...
The platform built for future-proofing Get in touch This post was originally published in November 2020 and has since been updated for accuracy. In what might be the understatement of the decade, Brexit, the United Kingdom’s Jan. 31, 2020, departure from the European Union, has been a ...
Seven years ago, almost no one knew what AgriTech actually was. Venture capital firm AgFunder reported 2021 Agrifood tech investments raised $24 billion globally in the first half of last year, a new record. Announced in July 2021, the Government’s Innovation Strategy pledged to increase ...
stimulus, in addition to the promise to deliver Brexit. This additional spending should combine with improving business confidence to foster a pick-up in activity this year, suggesting that the BoE may not need to cut rates after all. All in all, the consensus expects 2020 GDP growth at 1.1...
Nigel Farage may be familiar to Americans as anally of former President Donald Trump. His firebrand anti-immigrant rhetoric became hugely influential in the movement that led to Britain's"Brexit" from the European Union. After decades languishing on the far-right fringe of British polit...
However, an adequacy decision is not guaranteed, and more restrictions may come into force later in the year.“ In a nutshell, this means that any UK company holding EU citizen data must ensure it is protected and stored correctly to EU Standards in order to comply,” says Gar...
What's next for Brexit? 01:28 How does it impact the rest of the world? If you’re a European nation: You have the most to lose – on so many fronts. Just under half of the UK’s exports go to the EU. Just over half of its imports come from the other 27 nations in the b...