Simon English is the Financial Editor at the Evening Standard. He has been writing about business and the City for more than 20 years. He is a former City Editor of The Sun and former Wall Street Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph....
Simon English is the Financial Editor at the Evening Standard. He has been writing about business and the City for more than 20 years. He is a former City Editor of The Sun and former Wall Street Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph.
Bank of England and lenders are pulling in the opposite direction
City comment: As long as the Government keeps applying pressure to lower borrowing costs, bank shares are a clear sell
What if all this interest rate pain brings no gain on inflation?
City comment: Most rate-setters don’t have mortgages. How hard it is to pay one might be passing them by.
Maybe a house price crash is just what our society needs
City Comment: Perhaps this shock to the market is overdue
Londoners and under-40s hardest hit by Britain’s mortgage rate mayhem
Inflation refuses to budge as under-40s, renters and London homeowners feel the pain
‘AI revolution’? This feels like the dot com bubble all over again
City comment: First come the innovators, then come the imitators, then come the idiots
No more bailouts so Bailey needs to delay rate rise
City comment: The best thing would be for the Bank of England to reverse-ferret and delay the pencilled-in rate rise
Interest rates could hit 6% as City fears Bank losing inflation battle
The picture could get significantly better or worse this week with two key economic events on the calendar
Attacks on Andrew Bailey are understandable, but a little unfair
City Comment: The Bank of England governor has got a near impossible job
CMC profits dive -- yet Boris super fan Lord Cruddas is silent
City Comment: Are politics getting in the way of business?
The bitter Barclay banking feud that forced sale of the Telegraph
The Barclays’ downfall is the sort of story their own newspapers would relish
Sale of Telegraph group could take months to complete, warn banks
Sale is set to a spark bidding war amid debts of £1 billion
The sorry state of the Bank of England’s battle with price hikes
City comment: At least the Bank’s old approach was consistent
Interest rates: Consumers drowning in debt as inflation bites
Mortgage, credit card, student loans and other debt has rocketed since Covid ended
Government debt is going only one way -- up
City Comment: Why governments run deficits
Central banks knew about Libor “rigging” -- of course they did
City Comment: The Libor traders are not the villains of the financial crash
National treasure Nationwide goes from strength to strength
City Comment: Perhaps the society could be kinder to wannabe members