by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Jun 6, 2012 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Monthly Musings, News, Noteworthy News, Small Business Blog, Uncategorized
The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee has brought about much retrospective - Looking back at the economy and thinking about how businesses were run very differently. There was the similarity of difficult economic times being shared 60 years ago, a time of hardly any FTSE 100, 250 ,or similar indicators, amongst a stock exchange that was similar to [...]
by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Jun 2, 2012 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Financial Markets
The British are coming... the British are coming..... 95% of UK Businesses can be described as Micro-enterprises (having less than ten employees) UK Micro-Business accounts for nearly one fifth of the economy UK Micro-Businesses generate £613,266m turnover for the UK economy UK small and medium sized enterprise accounts for 99.9% of the total number of [...]
by Step-Up Finance (Business) | May 24, 2012 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Financial Markets
With the hokey-cokey playing out in Greece, banks are set to lose money if it leaves the euro, but the effects could be felt on home soils worldwide. Apparently contingency plans are being made for such an event, which presumably support the banks in damage limitation against a further ‘credit crunch’ however, any losses faced by the [...]
by Step-Up Finance (Business) | May 9, 2012 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance
Listening to Robin Dunbar’s explanation of love might have been a useful exercise for the seemingly doomed retail chain that is Clintons. For, as he pointed out, the intensity to which the human species falls in love, is unique amongst the animal kingdom... and being as we’re the species with purses and wallets, there is [...]
by Step-Up Finance (Business) | May 1, 2012 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Financial Markets, Management, Market Update, Miscellaneous, Monthly Musings, News, Newsletter, Noteworthy News, Small Business Blog
Old news, the UK is in recession (again) as the Office of National Statistics said Britain’s GDP fell 0.2% in the first quarter of 2012 after contracting by 0.3% at the end of 2011, forecasts were upset by a big fall in construction output and industrial output. Therefore, with a sinking-ship type economy, apt news [...]
by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Apr 24, 2012 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance
Not only in business can mistakes, to expand or contract in response to confidence or uncertainty, be costly, therefore not an unusual conversation with a small enterprise, at a time of uncertainty. Discussing concepts within an owner-manager’s business talk led away from the actual situation to what if possibilities: past, present and future. The difference [...]
