One of the most controversial measures revealed in the Autumn Budget was an increase to employers’ National Insurance (NI).
Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced that employers’ contributions would increase from 13.8% to 15% from April 2025. The threshold at which businesses
Ahead of his inauguration, Donald Trump engaged in some sabre-rattling. Not against America’s enemies, though, but three close allies: Denmark, Canada and Panama. Trump’s musings about absorbing Canada as the 51st US state were mostly treated as bombastic posturing. But
Ask anyone in Louisiana who makes the best gumbo and the answer will be “my momma”. “Gumbo” derives from the West African word for the okra that was brought to Louisiana by the early enslaved people and used to thicken
Mortgage lending rules could be relaxed to help more first-time buyers onto the property ladder and boost the economy.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has been seeking ideas from financial regulators on how to boost the economy amid concerns about the UK’s
In the face of criticism for travelling to China amid domestic “financial market turmoil”, chancellor Rachel Reeves insisted at a press conference in Beijing on 11 January that she would stick to the fiscal rules set out in the Budget
Over the past month, a steady stream of reports on the investment outlook for 2025 has arrived in my inbox. Compiled by the top analysts at the likes of JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, UBS, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Barclays, SocGen and
The housing market finished last year on a “firm footing”, with a rise in house sales and new buyer enquiries, according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) survey.
House prices increased in every region of the UK
At the end of 2023, the S&P 500 index was trading at 19.8 times forecast 2024 earnings, having risen 24% in the year. The MegaCap Eight, according to Ed Yardeni of Yardeni Research, was trading at 28 times 2024