Since the Bank of England reduced its base lending rate to an historically low 2% on Thursday UK media commentary has been dominated by a ‘will they, won’t they’ analysis of which banks are planning to pass on the full value of the 1% cut to their mortgage customers and which are not. At the [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Money (that’s what I want)…
Posted in Banking, Credit Crunch, Economy, Edelman, Hedge Funds, Media, Public Relations, tagged Banking, Edelman, Mortgage rates on 7 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Do You Know Where You’re Going To…..
Posted in Credit Crunch, Economy, Edelman, Politics, Public Relations, tagged British Chambers of Commerce, David Frost, Economy, Goldman Sachs, Jim O'Neill, John Waples, Liberal Democrats, Sunday Times, Vince Cable on 4 December 2008 | 1 Comment »
OK – first some self-justification. I realise that this song doesn’t exactly enhance my credentials as the wild man of PR. Unfortunately it’s the most appropriate one I could come up with in what is a necessarily short space of time and, having set out the parameters for titles myself – most importantly that they [...]
Killer Queen…
Posted in Economy, Politics, tagged Banking, British Chambers of Commerce, British Retail Consortium, Queens Speech on 3 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s an indication of the constantly changing state of the financial world – and the Government’s introduction in draft form in May of many of the bills presented – that today’s Queen’s Speech has been largely shrugged off in the City. While there were certainly murmurs of discontent from business groups such as the British [...]
