Patrick Hosking
@HoskingTheTimes
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Gilts plunging, cost of govt borrowing up steeply. On Richter scale of alarm, this one day move is roughly two-thirds of a Kwarteng on the day of his mini budget
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Cost of govt borrowing creeping up as Reeves speaks. Ten year gilt yield up a modest 5 bps in last 45 mins.
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RT @DanNeidle: Two surprising entrants on HMRC's list of "deliberate tax defaulters" - people who deliberately didn't pay tax they knew was….
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RT @jimconey: Free! Free! Free! .A couple of weeks ago I wrote about my son Charlie and the amazing scientists who have changed our lives.….
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The latest breaking UK, US, world, business and sport news from The Times and The Sunday Times. Go beyond today's headlines with in-depth analysis and comment.
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No paywall for Times stories this weekend. This was my take on that tearful Neil Woodford interview a couple of months back . No pa https://www.thetimes.com/business-money/money/article/neil-woodfords-tearful-interview-left-big-questions-unanswered-d7cg656pf.
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How capitalism at its rawest bankrolls medical research. Paywall for Times articles has been lifted all this weekend. PS Klarna announced intention to float on Friday evening.
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Wellcome Trust has mastered the difficult art of both paying out huge amounts of cash for research, while still growing the portfolio for future generations
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Some annunition for next time another govt minister wangs on about "unlocking pension surpluses". Paywall for Times articles is down all weekend.
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The latest wheeze from Sir Keir Starmer and his chancellor on kick-starting the economy desperately over-eggs the potential of defined benefit schemes
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How to make a “life-changing” sum of money at 26. No paywall for Times stories this weekend. Augmentum boss: ‘Silicon Valley tech bros aren’t very good at financial services, we are’.
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The latest breaking UK, US, world, business and sport news from The Times and The Sunday Times. Go beyond today's headlines with in-depth analysis and comment.
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RT @j_amesmarriott: There is no Times paywall this weekend. In the undying spirit of self-promotion, here are some pieces of mine from the….
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RT @OliverKamm: This is a very bad idea - even framed as “encouragement” rather than instigation - and I keep hoping Labour will abandon it….
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Torsten Bell says government is ‘encouraging, not instigating’ investment in wider range of assets
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Even this man takes voiced questions from journos once a year. Unlike ftse 100 co @Schroders , which today resorted to a new format where only written questions filtered by its PR man were possible at its annual press conf. Deeply depressing
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RT @FundFanatic: Saba Capital Income and Opps Fund II reveals £7.4m stake in £2bn Smithson (SSON) at 31 October reports @HoskingTheTimes.….
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The latest breaking UK, US, world, business and sport news from The Times and The Sunday Times. Go beyond today's headlines with in-depth analysis and comment.
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Very good col from my colleague @alistairosborne. Musk has serious case to answer and his infantile belittling of the SEC doesn't change that.
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US Securities and Exchange Commission, has brought a lawsuit against Elon Musk alleging he cheated investors by failing to disclose stake-building in Twitter
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RT @Ian_Fraser: “All the lights are flashing red” for US equities at the moment, said Anthony Bolton. Speaking at @EdinburghLoM this evenin….
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What to do about CGT, masterfully explained.
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The chancellor should focus on the tax base and close loopholes to make the system fairer
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Nice evocative piece from Sir Richard Lambert on a world long gone.
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Brilliant piece from @davidwighton exposing myth we are under-fuelled by venture capital.
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Since 2014, the amount of venture capital investment going into UK companies has almost doubled relative to the US
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RT @neiljeffares: @HoskingTheTimes And by confusing the public by constantly referring to the rate of inflation as "inflation" as though it….
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CPI prices in the UK rose month on month by the highest amount since last May in both Feb and Mar this year (up 0.6 per cent in each case). The month on month figs show inflation if anything getting worse, not better. This is disguised by the framing of inflation in annual terms.
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Alan, Where was this cutting from and when published please? I can't immediately find it in any database.
𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗴𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲𝘀. Rachel Riley has a Masters degree in mathematics from Oxford University. Judging from her appearances on the TV show Countdown, she’s got a super smart brain and
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