by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Jan 11, 2012 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Market Update, Miscellaneous, News, Newsletter, Noteworthy News, Small Business Blog, Uncategorized
It is becoming prohibitively expensive for the lenders, who rely on cheap short-term financing to fund a part of their balance sheet, to fund for more than 3-5 years, hence, traditional banking, which supports the wider corporate client, is facing further shrinkage in the corporate banking world. Businesses and motorists are bracing themselves after the [...]
by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Mar 23, 2011 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Financial Markets, Management, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized
Cue the music: "I'm on a low budget , I'm on a low budget , I'm not cheap, you understand I'm just a cut price person in a low budget land". With an uncertain growth outlook and rising unemployment, the least our Chancellor could do is make his budget for growth [...]
by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Dec 9, 2009 | Blog, Economy
Thanks to the PNC Christmas Price Index the economy can be tracked when illustrating the purchase of gifts for the traditional Twelve Days of Christmas. The Index shows, in keeping with inflation, Christmas gets more expensive each year with a 1.8% increase over last year; itself an 8.1% increase over the previous year. This year’s True [...]
by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Jun 3, 2009 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Financial Markets, Management, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized
Understanding what is happening in the economy is not about money or the making of it, however, understanding what is happening around us can help us gain some perspective – a favourite word at Step-Up Finance – in order for us all to make choices appropriate to that economy. It’s inevitable that interest rates are [...]
by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Jun 1, 2009 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Financial Markets, Great Depression / Crash, Market Update, Miscellaneous, News, Newsletter, Uncategorized
Life on Earth climbs out of the Swamp.... “Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate. Purge the rottenness out of the system....” This was the advice given by Hoover’s Treasury Secretary, Mellon, during the Great Depression. “ High costs of living and high living will come down. People will work harder, live [...]
