Britain and EU cannot afford to delay trade talks
Andy jalil - andyjalil@aol.com - After the recent months have been dominated by hyped-up talk of cabinet divisions and a Brexit in peril, plans are beginning to emerge and a strategy is beginning to...
UK retailers blame costs for job cuts and sales slump
Andy jalil - andyjalil@aol.com - Drop in sales and cut in employment have been blamed by beleaguered retailers in Britain on costs associated with the national living wage and the apprenticeship...
EU cities increase effort to lure UK financial jobs
Competition among the cities of Europe has been intense to attract jobs from the ‘City’ (financial district) of London after Britain leaves the EU. But London’s economy is on track to outpace...
Companies can reduce damage of global cyber attack
Andy jalil - andyjalil@aol.com - Cybercrime is on the increase but there is a great deal that can be done to lessen its impact — starting with making life a lot harder for the criminals themselves....
UK Labour party split widens over Brexit policy
Andy jalil - andyjalil@aol.com - Divisions within Britain’s Labour party have been exposed over Brexit deals as senior members of the party have been contradicting each other while MPs have been...
Consumers feel squeeze as confidence continues to fall
Andy jalil - andyjalil@aol.com - UK consumer confidence has dropped to its lowest level since the aftermath of the Brexit vote as households and businesses feel the inflation squeeze. A...
UK businesses pleased with change in tone from Govt
In recent months businesses in the UK have been expressing concern over the effect on the economy after leaving the European Union and have felt that it has not been getting priority. But the...
Effect on the year following the Brexit referendum
Andy jalil - andyjalil@aol.com - It is just over a year since Britain decided to leave the European Union and it’s been a somewhat turbulent time since. The political shakeup which hit the country...
What an unsettled UK govt means for housing market
Andy jalil - andyjalil@aol.com - Aminority government creates a period of uncertainty for the UK as it cannot be said how successful the Conservative government will be in a coalition and whether...
UK financial companies now sense a softer Brexit
Andy jalil - andyjalil@aol.com - Bosses of companies in the financial district (known as the ‘City’) of London are set to push for a softer Brexit after Prime Minister Theresa May failed to win a...
Migrant clampdown is a setback for UK tech crown
Andy jalil - andyjalil@aol.com - Business groups say that British enterprises could be struggling with the government’s restrictive immigration policies. The Conservative party’s aim of cutting...
Early Brexit talks may stop flight of UK financial firms
Andy jalil - andyjalil@aol.com - It won’t be long after the general election on June 8 that the Prime Minister Theresa May will be turning her thoughts to Brexit negotiations. With some financial...
Polls are not perfect but cannot be written off
Andy Jalil - andyjalil@aol.com - Polling companies have taken a fair bit of kicking in recent times, not surprisingly, after failing to predict the outcome of so many political events. We saw this...
Ireland prepares to rise to the challenge of Brexit
Andy jalil - andyjalil@aol.com - With its close association with the UK, the impact of Brexit will be more profound in Ireland than in any of the other 26 countries in the EU. Whether Britain is...
Irish exporters are planning for effect of Brexit
Andy jalil - andyjalil@aol.com - Exporting companies in Ireland are getting increasingly concerned of the fact that Brexit is now a reality and that they need to put in place a strategy to...
Signs point toward big Tory victory, if not a landslide
Going by the various polls, May’s Conservative party have the best chance to win and if they do, the question is how big the margin of victory be and what will be the economic and political...
Fall in number of women in UK senior job positions
According to new research by executive search agency Green Park, female UK business leaders are three times more likely to need qualification from an elite university to get top jobs than their male...
Weak growth in UK construction, shortage of workers
Should a hard Brexit materialise and the points-based system for non-EU migrants be extended, the UK could miss out on additional 215,000 migrant workers by 2020 Andy jalil - andyjalil@aol.com...
Britain embarks on a long and tough journey
It is doubtful the UK can negotiate its exit (and its new deal) within the two-year time-frame. The EU won’t make life easy but nor can it afford to punish the UK, they too can have much to lose...
Plans for investments in UK with confidence high
Andy jalil - andyjalil@aol.com - London is gearing up for huge initial public offerings (IPOs) in the pipeline with the country set to benefit from up to £30 billion of flotations in the coming...