General News
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June 2014  Last week the European Central Bank (ECB) announced a broad range of measures to try and stimulate bank lending and to boost inflation/avoid deflation in the Eurozone.Read more |
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June 2014  We look at why pressure on interest rates is rising, what we expect to happen and what the impact of an earlier forced rise in interest rates might mean for investment markets.Read more |
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June 2014  In our view, asset price performance year-to-date has been primarily driven by three main investment themes. The first of these is falling bond yields.Read more |
 When assessing the likely economic outlook and how this may impact on growth, it is important to identify data releases that are good indicators of economic health. Purchasing Managers’ Indices (PMIs) are one such indicator that we follow most closely, as they survey spending intentions of...Read more |
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May 2014  Each month, the bank's archivist Pamela Hunter publishes an illustrated article which looks at a single item from our historical collections and the story behind it.Read more |
