There has been a steady drip of news stories regarding China’s weakening economy recently; there are several reasons as to why this is happening. The troubles of China’s overleveraged property sector are well documented and the country has failed to transition to a domestic, consumption-driven economic model.
Much as I’d like to write about something other than inflation, it continues to be the dominant economic concern, so here we go again. Last month saw a plethora of articles trying to explain why inflation was higher in the UK than in other countries, and none of them...
Rising mortgage rates have dominated much of the news and economic debate for the past few weeks. Gus Williams, the Chief Executive Officer at Bevan Buckland LLP, takes a closer look below. Ignoring rental properties, there are around 16 million households in the UK....
The main challenge when trying to piece together a picture on the state of the Welsh economy is the lag time between national and regional data being available. In May the ONS published its latest regional GDP data covering up to September 2022. That data paints a...
Should we be worried that recent US bank failures spill over into the UK banking sector? No. The recent failures have highlighted that although the US banking regulators have significantly tightened regulation around large systemic banks, the likes of JP Morgan, they have left a significant gap in the regulation and stress testing of smaller regional banks