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Voters, politicians, business, and trade unionists will be waiting with bated breath to hear the content of Jeremy Hunt’s almost certainly final Budget speech at lunchtime on Wednesday, 6th March 2024.
It is generally felt that global stock markets’ performances are very often not an accurate barometer of economic activity. In fact, their behaviour is often erratic and occasionally illogical.
Christmas is upon us! However, politically, and economically, the season of good cheer seems a million miles away! Good news is hardly in plentiful supply.
Few would argue that the banking and credit crisis of 2008/9, flagged up by ‘Household’, HSBC’S sub-prime lender in 2007 was the greatest economic tragedy since the ‘Depression’ in 1929. Most are of the opinion that the world’s economy has yet to fully recover.