Podcasts related to Economics - UK

Billy Bambrough looks into the performance of sovereign wealth funds, amidst stock market crashes and falling commodity prices. Billy speaks to Enrico Soddu, Head of Data and Research at the Sovereign Wealth Centre, and Selina Sy, Associate Commercial Manager of Hedge Funds at Preqin.

Anastasia Nesvetailova, Professor at City University and now a Member of the Economic Advisory Panel to the Labour Party, joins Sarah Lowther and Mark Johnson to offer an insight into the party, with the Labour conference ongoing.

The Centre for Economics and Business Research has released its latest analysis on a rate rise, pushing back its forecast. Head of Macroeconomics at the CEBR, Scott Corfe, joins Sarah Lowther and Mark Johnson to discuss this.

The Bank of England has claimed that UK banks are vulnerable to the slowdown in China and other emerging market economies. Billy Bambrough speaks with Ian Gordon, Analyst at Investec, and Tom Burroughes, Group Editor at Wealthbriefing, about this.

‎The team from This Is Money, the award-winning financial website, are back in the studio to run through all the big stories they’ve been investigating this week including: the fall out from the VW Scandal, whether diesel’s now a dirty word, a stolen Lexus’ big trip to Uganda, and…why Mark Carney's been getting all philosophical over the economy.‎

The EU has pledged €1 billion to help UN agencies support Syrian refugees. But what does this mean for the UK? Jack Sommers, of The Huffington Post, discusses this and more with Mark Johnson and Nigel Cassidy.

Big data company WANdisco has released their half year results, so company CEO, David Richards, talks to Mark Johnson and Nigel Cassidy about their performance, their outlook for the remainder of the year and the big data industry.

A potential stock connect between the London Stock Exchange and Shanghai is the latest news coming out of George Osborne's five day visit to China. Dr David Kuo, CEO at The Motley Fool Singapore, gives his thoughts to Sandra Kilhof and Mark Johnson on any potential deal.

Russ Mould, Investment Director at AJ Bell, speaks to Sandra Kilhof and Mark Johnson offering an insight into the FTSE index reshuffle, and what it means for investors.

David Kuo, CEO at The Motley Fool Singapore, talks to Sandra Kilhof and Mark Johnson about the recent deal between the UK and China over the Hinkley Point nuclear power plant.