Jonathan Prynn has been Business Editor of the Standard since May 2022. Before that he was Consumer Editor and has also worked at The Times and the Sunday Telegraph. He is responsible for all the business and finance coverage in the paper and online....
Jonathan Prynn has been Business Editor of the Standard since May 2022. Before that he was Consumer Editor and has also worked at The Times and the Sunday Telegraph. He is responsible for all the business and finance coverage in the paper and online.
City Comment: The Tories have not done themselves any favours with their relentlessly anti-London tone
IWG’s space will spanning the entire 5th floor level of the One Olympia building
BT Group agrees to sale of Grade-II listed tower to MCR Hotels
Public sector collected £16.7 billion more in tax than it spent during the month, ONS figures show
City Comment: It could be just what we need to power the economy out of its current productivity malaise
The study blames a shortage of talent exacerbated by Brexit, difficulties accessing finance, late payment by customers, and poor digital infrastructure
The ITV show hosted by Phillip Schofield ran for 11 series from 2009 and 2021 with prize money that peaked at £1 million.
City Comment: Will the resurgence last, or is it just a short-lived bounce?
The biggest single fall was in Westminster, where the average cost of a home plummeted almost 21% to £877,733
GDP fell by a worse than expected 0.3% in the last three months of 2023
City Comment: This is as much a political recession just as much as an economic one
City Comment: It’s inexplicable that the Government has persisted as long as it has with an anti-growth measure that it knows harms its GDP motor
The effect was most marked among affluent visitors from Middle East countries such as Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar and Kuwait
City Comment: Banks are in for record profits, but their shares are nowhere near their 2007 highs
City markets are now pricing in a 55% likelihood the Bank of England will start cutting rates as soon as June.
Latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed regular pay went up by an average of 6.2% in the three months to December
Food prices fell for the first time in two and a half years offsetting energy bill hikes
Bank shares languish well below pre financial crisis levels despite the profits revival
City Comment: For Sunak and Hunt, an official declaration of recession, however shallow, is yet another dent to their claims on the economy