by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Jun 2, 2011 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Financial Markets, Market Update, Miscellaneous, News, Newsletter, Noteworthy News, Uncategorized
The health status of micro and small businesses improved , according to Experian’s April Insolvency Index which revealed that 0.55% fewer UK companies become insolvent, 1,808 in number (0.10% of active businesses), compared to the same period last year. There has been an increase of 4.44% year-on-year amongst medium sized companies, whilst the big boys [...]
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) | Sep 8, 2009 | Blog, Uncategorized
At the weekend, the G20 economic Ministers, amongst their discussions, worked on an agreement aimed at protecting global Banking from systemic risks and reforming Bankers’ bonus payments. The contentious areas are likely to be the requirement to hold more and higher quality capital and the setting of leverage ratio, limiting the amount of borrowing by [...]
