A fairly uneventful week draws to a close today, with very little data due at all and certainly nothing of any note. We have already had German CPI inflation out this morning, which came out exactly on expectations and barely caused a ripple in the currency market pond. While there has been little news of […]
Wednesday was a pretty quiet day for the markets with very little in the way of data for traders to go on. Early doors the pound lost value across the board following the release of the Halifax house price figures which came out under expectation showing negative growth for last month. From a 4 percent […]
More than a quarter of British employees dream of running a business, according to a survey from Lloyds Bank Insurance. The report reveals that 26% of workers have entrepreneurial aspirations but the fear of taking risk is preventing a third (33%) from starting a business. Nearly half (48%) believe that the economic environment is not […]
This week’s trading opened with the pound being sold from its peak rates seen last week. With an absence of any UK data to bolster the pound’s value, traders took this opportunity to take profits from the highs seen last week, supporting the view that we may have found the short term peak against the […]
The Pound fell back during yesterday morning’s trading, after UK manufacturing and industrial production data showed a surprise fall. Manufacturing growth, which has been a cornerstone of the UK’s economic recovery, fell in May from 5.6% to 3.7%, against expectations of a fall to 4.4%. While the figures still show growth, the pace has slowed […]
Livia Oglio intervened July 2, 2014 at the conference organized by ‘IIR on “STRATEGIES, TOOLS AND INNOVATION IN SUPPORT OF HEALTH OF INTERNATIONALISATION ‘ITALIAN “, illustrating the results of his research on the current state of implementation of the Directive EU/2011/24 in the various EU Member States and the instruments of protection in the field of the […]
This article discusses how to consider and define employment stress, what factors contribute to it and maintain it, and what services both preventative and rehabilitative are necessary to maintain a healthy workforce within a competitive market place. Stress and mental health disorders are one of the biggest causes of long-term absence from the workplace (Black & Frost, 2011). It is estimated […]
International Referral, the world’s largest exclusive network of advisory firms is delighted to introduce Rustom Tata of DMH Stallard. Rustom has joined IR as our exclusive Employment Law (Corporate) member in England. Rustom leads DMH Stallard’s highly regarded Employment Group. His own practice focuses on the management of legal and reputational risks for a number of […]
International Referral, the world’s largest exclusive network of advisory firms is delighted to introduce Max Lesser of Colman Coyle. Max has joined IR as our exclusive Commercial Law member in UK. Max has a pragmatic and highly commercial approach which has been cultivated over more than 20 years working across the City of London advising […]
HMRC DON’T LIKE PARTNERSHIPS WITH CORPORATE MEMBERS Last summer a consultation document was published setting out the proposed counteraction by HMRC of artificial profit and loss allocations involving mixed partnerships and LLPs. The measures were clearly intended to catch situations where excessive profits are allocated to members who are limited companies as those profits are generally […]
The UK housing market ‘remained strong’ in June 2014 as prices rose 1% during the month, according to data collected by Nationwide. The monthly housing survey found that prices increased by 11.8% in June 2014 compared to a year earlier, with all UK regions seeing price increases. Key findings: London prices recorded the biggest jump, […]
How do you maximise the sale of your business? When it comes to selling anything that we own, we seem to go through a similar process of preparing the item. How do we do this? If it’s selling an item online, it’s usually snapping a picture at its best angle possible or even polishing it […]