Reform UK pledges mass tax cuts in manifesto launch
Party says the BoE should cease interest payments to commercial banks on the £700bn bonds it holds as a result of QE
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Premier Miton’s Rayner: Markets becoming ‘increasingly centrally planned’ over decades
‘Governments, and their agents such as central banks, are very much involved in controlling economies and financial markets’
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Adrian Boulding: Are gilts a good-value fit for clients’ retirement income needs?
Unbroken 330-year track record of the British government never missing due interest or principal payments
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ECB to end quantitative easing
The European Central Bank has set an end date for quantitative easing, stating purchases will be halved after September before the programme ends in December.
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No surprises from Draghi: ECB halves asset purchases to €30bn
The European Central Bank (ECB) will cut the size of its monthly asset purchases in half from January next year, the bank’s president Mario Draghi announced on Thursday. Bond and equity markets, as well as the euro, hardly responded to the announcement.
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Hawkish Fed to taper from next month
The US Federal Reserve announced it will begin to unwind its quantitative easing programme in October, and said another rate hike this year is likely despite persistently low inflation.
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No basis for hawkish turn as ECB holds firm
A meeting of the European Central Bank heralded few surprises on Thursday, but added fuel to speculation QE will continue past 2017.
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BoE cuts and QE ‘catastrophic’ for pension funds: says deVere
The Bank of England’s decision to cut interest rates and expand quantitative easing (QE) to cushion the UK from recession is not the answer to the country’s economic woes, the chief executive of deVere Group has warned.
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ANALYSIS: A Bank of England U–turn?
The Bank of England has chosen to keep its powder dry by backing off from the interest rate cut that had been hinted at, but is this a U-turn or just minor detour?
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I’m not a eurosceptic, says Yanis Varoufakis
In this Q&A session, filmed at a Pan-European Congress hosted by International Adviser’s sister publication Expert Investor, Yanis Varoufakis reveals exclusively why he is not a eurosceptic. He also explains why he admires Wolfgang Schäuble, and much more.
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The commodity bull awakens
Although commodities are still being treated with a great deal of suspicion, by taking a long-term view investors could reap the rewards of the consolidation that is already underway in the sector.
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Decoding the ECB ‘disappointment’
European Central Bank president Mario Draghi disappointed markets on Thursday. While the bank delivered a 10 basis point cut to the deposit rate to an historic -0.3%, and extended the deadline of its asset purchase programme by six months, it kept the main refinancing and marginal lending rates steady at five and 30 basis points…