April 19, 2025
Financial Assets

Spring Budget: Will bond vigilantes strike again?

Another Budget, another prime minister glancing at yields on his phone, as he sits next to his chancellor while they are delivering their customary speech. Is there a real risk that gilt yields will consign Sir Keir Starmer to the history books as they did Liz Truss? The experience of losing a PM due to

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Financial Assets

Stocks to buy: Two stock recommendations from MarketSmith India for 3 February

As a result, Nifty formed a doji candle with a higher-high and higher-low price structure. On the weekly chart, the index snapped its three consecutive weeks of losses and formed a bullish candle. The advance-decline ratio was flattened and settled around 1:1. Also read: Will investors flock to agri-stocks after the Budget? From a technical

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Operating Assets

Budget will create short-term growth, higher inflation and lower wages, economists say

CHANCELLOR Rachel Reeves’s Budget will create short-term economic growth at the cost of higher inflation and lower wages, researchers say. An increase in government spending will see growth shoot up to 1.3 per cent in 2025 before falling slightly to 1.2 per cent in 2026, said a think tank report published today. The boost, however, may only

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Fixed Assets

‘Offensive’ to brand farmers as land hoarders, Simon Harris says as new residential land tax shelved ahead of Budget

Decision by Finance Minister Jack Chambers will be seen as a major election sweetener for farmers, but also a win for land speculators hoarding sites in the hope the value will increase in line with record house prices Mr Harris said he listened to the “legitimate concerns” of farmers who faced their land being taxed

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