TERRY MURDEN picks out a number of key developments likely to make headlines in the coming year Forecasting is very difficult, especially when it involves the future, said Yogi Berra, the legendary American baseball coach. As for economic forecasting, it was Ezra Solomon, one of President Nixon’s advisers, who said its only function was to […]
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Banking on Sid to fire up shares sale
Jeremy Hunt wants to rekindle the spirit of privatisation to sell the government’s remaining shares in NatWest/RBS, but will it work, asks TERRY MURDEN While the Chancellor’s cuts in national insurance and the uplift in pensions were the stand out headline grabbers, there were a number of eye-catching announcements in the Autumn Statement that had […]