FYI, global composite output #PMI ticked up to 52.4 in April, from 52.3 in March, signalling a further recovery.

Among the #G7 ...

🇬🇧 54.1
🇯🇵 52.6 *
🇮🇹 52.6
🇺🇸 51.3
🇩🇪 50.6
🇫🇷 50.5
🇨🇦 49.3 **

* flash estimate
** at least this was a 10-month high

pmi.spglobal.com/Public/Release…

Just pointing out to oh say the Tory party that Ben Houchen and Andy Street have been arguably the most pro-development politicians in the UK, and have been massively rewarded for it by the voters.

Still bemused by how many of the usual suspects are pushing this as a #Brexit 'gotcha!'... 🤷‍♂️

Of course a relatively poor country like Poland had a lot to gain from joining the EU. But this tells us nothing about a relatively rich country leaving.

(And no, Poles won't be…

More evidence of economic recovery... 👍

UK composite #PMI revised up to 54.1 in April (flash 54.0, March 52.8)

Main cloud is the pick up in the PMI measures of #inflation (partly due to big hikes in the minimum wage), which will worry some at the Bank.

pmi.spglobal.com/Public/Home/Pr…

Wise words from (IMHO) the last serious Governor of the Bank of England... 🤓

#inflation #BankofEngland

I'm shocked, SHOCKED, that a politician would present the facts in the most favourable light 😯

Seriously, everything Kemi Badenoch says here is true and, yes, she does understand the difference between value and volume data... 🤓

hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2024-0…

Goldmans to scrap bankers bonus cap...

Good!

It may be difficult to justify paying even bigger bonuses to a handful of bankers during a cost of living crisis, but these will be the top performers in a sector which supports many jobs and generates a large amount of tax revenue,…

The Good Laugh Project throw their lot in with Gender GP the day after the president of the family division deals with a case where a potentially fatal dose of testosterone was administered to an autistic and anorexic girl

If you fund this now. That is what you are funding.

They called you a ‘bigot’ if you questioned whether women had a penis.

Then, a ‘flat-earther’ if you want to stop ULEZ.

Now you’re a ‘racist’ if you vote for Susan Hall.

Welcome to a society run by Labour. They’ll shame you until you do as you’re told.

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ICYMI, the latest EY analysis suggests that the #UK bucked the negative European trend on Foreign Direct Investment #FDI in 2023.

#France retained the no.1 spot for the number of projects, but the UK is still leading on value (e.g. jobs created)... (1/2)

ey.com/en_gl/foreign-…

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Reminder that it's not just #UK #mortgage rates that are rising again...

The costs of US #mortgage s have climbed for the fifth successive week, as markets have also scaled back their expectations for rate cuts from the #Fed 👇

freddiemac.com/pmms?s=03

Monty ignoring the sign, as usual... 🙄

#dogsatpollingstations