#155 Pre-Budget confidence concerns
🧮 With a long gap between the General Election and Chancellor Rachel Reeves' first Budget, recent data measuring consumer and business confidence is showing a slight wobble. In this week's podcast, J...
23 Sep 202412min
#154 Global Macro Forecast AND interest rates decision special edition 📊
We welcome a new expert to the podcast this week as our Head of Forecasting Johan Löf chats to James Sproule about Handelsbanken's latest Global Macro Forecast (spoiler alert: it's positive news). Plu...
19 Sep 202412min
#153 📢 Trends episode klaxon 📢
Transport trends and what's happening to productivity are on the agenda for this week's podcast with James Sproule and Daniel Mahoney. James has been looking at a number of datasets to find out how th...
9 Sep 202411min
#152 Interest rates are finally going ⏬ but how quickly?
In the first Handelsbanken Insights episode of our new season, James Sproule and Daniel Mahoney recap what happened while we were away, including the impact of the first interest rate cut of the curre...
2 Sep 202413min
#151 Your most-asked economics questions - answered!
For the final episode of this season of Handelsbanken Insights Economic Update, James and Dan welcome Jasmine Crabb from our Capital Markets Desk to answer some of the most-asked questions from our ev...
29 Juli 202419min
#150 The King's Speech: 3 key takeaways
On the penultimate episode of this season, James Sproule and Daniel Mahoney take a look at three of the 40 bills announced in last week's King's Speech. They also consider how that and recent jobs and...
22 Juli 202413min
#149 Economists ready their spreadsheets for inflation and earnings data
Inflation and earnings data are going to provide the data backdrop to this week's King's Speech where the new government will set out its legislative programme for the year. Our UK Chief Economist Jam...
15 Juli 202414min
#148 New beginnings, same problems?
In a packed podcast this week. After the UK and French elections, Sonia Rothwell and Daniel Mahoney talk about how the markets have responded to the results, including why housebuilders' stocks receiv...
8 Juli 202413min
