Green Shoots

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• Problems mount for Darling as alarm sounds over surge in UK budget deficit

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Despite a cheaper pound and rising house prices, falling output has left Britain still mired in recession House prices are booming, industry struggles and a ratings agency warns that it remains troubled by the size of Britains budget deficit. As he put the finishing touches to his third pre-budget report Alistair ...
  14 hours ago

• National Investment Corporation will lend to small firms in return for equity

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Government plans £1bn fund to provide capital to smaller businesses modelled on Industrial and Commercial Finance Corporation set up in 1945 Government plans to persuade banks and other financial institutions to support a £1bn fund to help struggling small businesses are more radical than envisaged when the prime ...
  18 hours ago

• Dont kill the green shoots, Darling | Will Straw

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 164
  The risk of a second recession hangs over the chancellors pre-budget report – slashing spending now would halt growth The chancellor faces a clear choice in his pre-budget report : to secure a recovery or risk a "double dip" recession. Since the nonsensical "investment versus cuts" debate of the summer, the ...
  20 hours ago

• Gloomy economic data piles up but recovery should be under way

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  With the pound so weak, and our main trading partners in Europe now growing again, it is a real worry that manufacturing appears so sluggish One could be forgiven for thinking that todays manufacturing output numbers are but the latest in a line of data suggesting that Britain is struggling to emerge from ...
  23 hours ago

• Private equity firms prepare to ride flotation wave in 2010

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  • Alliance Boots and Tommy Hilfiger among candidates to seek stock market listing in 2010 • Experts says new flotations would be used as way of refinancing debt-laden businesses Well-known companies including Alliance Boots, fashion brand Tommy Hilfiger, and Merlin Entertainment, which runs the Madame Tussauds ...
  2 days ago

• How the worlds economies are retreating from recession

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Britain is left behind as the rest of the G20 starts to grow again Britain is now suffering the indignity of being the last economy in the G20 to still be in recession – all the others managed to register some sort of growth in the third quarter of the year. One of the clearest indications that the recession is ...
  3 days ago

• Eurozone rates held at record low

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  European Central Bank keeps interest rates at 1% for seventh month in a row but signals beginning of withdrawal of extra liquidity to wean banks off cheap money The European Central Bank (ECB) left rates on hold today at the record low of 1% for the seventh month in a row. The ECB also kept its overnight deposit ...
  5 days ago

• Service sector: what the economists say

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Key Cips survey shows pace of recovery weakening but economists believe growth is being maintained Vicky Redwood, UK economist at Capital Economics "Novembers UK Cips/Markit report on services echoes the manufacturing report released earlier this week in suggesting that the pace of recovery could already be ...
  5 days ago

• Service sector recovery falters

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  The drop came after a similar and unexpected fall in the CIPSs index for manufacturing released two days ago Britains service sector suffered an unexpected slowdown last month, a key survey revealed today, which raised doubts about the strength of the economys fledgling recovery . The Chartered Institute of ...
  6 days ago

• Bubble warning from Bank of Englands chief economist

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Spencer Dale believes that the longer that quantitative easing continues, the greater the risk that markets get out of control Spencer Dale, the Bank of Englands chief economist, today warned of the risk of a new bubble inflating in frenzied financial markets , as the economy moves into "renewed expansion." ...
  6 days ago

• Construction slump starts to level off

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  CIPS purchasing survey shows UK construction industry declining for 21st straight month but housebuilding expands Activity in Britains flagging construction sector contracted for the 21st month in a row in November, although the rate of decline appeared to be easing. The Chartered Institute of Purchasing & ...
  1 week ago

• Manufacturing CIPS/Markit survey: what the economists say

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Vicky Redwood, UK economist at Capital Economics Novembers UK CIPS/Markit report on manufacturing suggests that the recovery in the industrial sector remains pretty fitful, although the underlying trend still seems to be one of improvement. The composite PMI fell from 53.4 to 51.8, while the new orders balance ...
  1 week ago

• Camerons policy on growth and the deficit is fundamentally flawed

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Cameron should forget the deficit for now – concentrating on economic growth is the only way out Dont the younger generation take things for granted? Dont those of us who are no longer young take things for granted? Im thinking in particular here of cash machines – sometimes known as ATMs or, as my friends at ...
  1 week ago

• How Will The Major Stock Markets Perform In 2009?

  
  $ucce$$-Team — Authority: 155
  The main stock markets from around the world have had quite a good start to the year. I have to say that this, in my opinion, is quite a surprise as the overall economy is still in dire straits - it was only a couple of months ago that General Motors went into administration for example. I am asked on a regular ...
  1 week ago

• Information is beautiful Friday: the Billion Pound-O-Gram

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Huge sums of money are being bandied about and no-one knows what they are. Its time to put them into perspective 289 billion spent on this. 400 billion spent on that. When money reaches this level it literally becomes mind- boggling. Yet these figures are regularly issued by the government - and the media - as if ...
  1 week ago

• Brown and Cameron clash over budget deficit

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  PM warns Britain should be careful not to withdraw support for the economy too soon as Tory leader presses for immediate action over ballooning budget deficit Steve Bell
  2 weeks ago

• OECD tlls Darling that he cannot afford a pre-election giveaway

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  As budget deficit hits £11.4bn, economic thinktank expects a weaker upturn for Britain over next two years The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development today warned Alistair Darling that he has no scope to afford pre-election giveaways, as official figures revealed that last month was the worst ...
  2 weeks ago

• Frontrunning: November 18

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 750
  Housing starts plunge 10%; has been a while since CNBC uttered green shoots ( Bloomberg ) Consumer prices increase 0.3% (0.2%) core as Americans pay more for gas ( Bloomberg ) Private equity funding plunges 62% at Calpers amid fee review ( Bloomberg ) Low U.S. stock trading volume heralds more gains ( Bloomberg ) ...
  2 weeks ago

• Manufacturing output expected to grow over next few months

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Any recovery will be anaemic and slow, said Ian McCafferty, the CBIs chief economic adviser Demand for UK manufactured goods remains very weak, the CBI said today, but is less depressed than it has been for much of 2009. In Novembers industrial trends survey, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) said that ...
  2 weeks ago

• Rosenberg: "Obamas Deja Vu Over-Consumption, Over-Borrowing And Over Building Policy Is Doomed To Failure"

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 750
  Some wise words from one of the few contrarians not swept into the vortex of a massive melt up. On the impact of Obamas stimulus, and its transformation into Fiscal Stimulus 2: The Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI), under the auspices of Lakshman Achuthan, publishes a leading economic indicator for the ...
  3 weeks ago

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