JPMorgan Russian - Low valuations and rising yields 170927 JRS Update QD Weak oil prices and a deteriorating relationship with the US have weighed on the Russian market for some time. Hopes of a rapprochement with the West in the wake of President Trump’s election have fizzled out. Russia is ...
British pensioners are now more financially secure than they ever have been, following the post-election deal between the DUP and Conservative Party, guaranteeing the triple lock pension and winter fuel allowance. More significant is the older generation’s ‘wealth mountain’—the property assets owned by those higher up the housing ladder. Unfortunately ...
Labour's Jonathan Ashworth today warned that the NHS urgently needs a £500m NHS winter bailout. The much needed cash was required to help increase capacity in struggling hospitals and to pay for extra staff. There are major concerns that the NHS could be at breaking point this festive season, without an ...
Chancellor Philip Hammond repeatedly refused to endorse Theresa May as the Conservative leader that will take the party into the next election just days before the Conservative Party Conference gets underway. Speculation over Ms May's future is rife in the run-up to the conference after reports emerged that 30 Tory MPs ...
Festivals follow many formats. The large outdoor type is arguably the most familiar, covering meadows, farms and abandoned complexes outside of the smog and strains of the city. There are the micro events that shrink into one building or room for a day or less, often referred to as one ...
By Benjamin Jenkins At the Labour Party Conference this week John McDonnell is keen to demonstrate Labour’s economic credibility and the alternatives the opposition would offer in power. The big headlines so far have been about his vow to renationalise rail, water, Royal Mail and energy industries with "market value ...
Angela Merkel is odds-on to piece together a so-called ‘Jamaica Coalition’ in the wake of her underwhelming victory in Sunday’s German federal elections. Merkel will enter her fourth term as Chancellor with just one third of the vote and she is now expected to partner with the yellow FDP party and the ...
A pub owner has launched the ultimate meal deal by giving away a MILLION lunches - for free. Craig Harker, 30, is using a cashback promotion from a new payment app to fund the "biggest giveaway ever". He has vowed to hand out one million 'parmos' - a chicken dish ...
In this weekend’s German election, for the first time since World War II, a far right party looks likely to take seats in the German parliament. Founded in April 2013, the extreme right euro-sceptic Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has become a populist anti-immigrant nationalist party in recent years. Despite ...