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Monday 13 February 2017 1:00 amSmall businesses at sea over Brexit as the weak pound causes headachesBy: Rebecca SmithShareFacebookShare on FacebookXShare on TwitterLinkedInShare
polene sac on LinkedInWhatsAppShare on WhatsAppEmailShare on EmailAdd as a preferredsource on GoogleTheresa May has not triggered Article 50 yet, but the uncertainty stirred up by Brexit, and the weak pound, are already we
polene bag ighing on small and medium-sized businesses.According to accountancy firm Moore Stephens, the fall in sterling in the wake of the Brexit vote on 23 June has been a key problem for businesses, with exchange rates particularly affecting smaller firms that rely heavily on imports from overseas.The accountancy firm surveyed around 700 business owners to gauge their views on how Brexit will impact their firms in the coming year.Read more: Parliament is likely to be virtually powerless as Brexit remakes Britain Of those, 35 per cent said they had already been negatively hit by Brexit, though more were in support of Brexit than the year before. While 17 per cent were in favour of leaving the EU in 2015, this had risen to 32 per cent for 2016, though56
stanley mug per cent of business owners still remained opposed to leaving the EU.Some 59 per cent were confident about the year ahead; a drop from 77 per cent recorded in the previous year and a three-year low from the survey. A fifth of business owners also expressed concerns that leaving the EU will make UK businesses less attractive to investors.While the rise i Lqyp Close Brothers in profit rise
Thursday 18 November 2010 8:54 pmCrisis must be used to force change
stanley canada By: KCS-contentShareFacebookShare on FacebookXShare on TwitterLinkedInShare on LinkedInWhatsAppShare on WhatsAppEmailShare on EmailAdd as a preferredsource on GoogleSOMETIMES, crises are the best way to force through change. Take what has happened to the US car industry. I wish the US government hadnrsquo;t bailed out General Motors; governments should not be in the business of helping individual firms in this way. The assistance helped GMrsquo remaining employees but it unfairly put other companies at a competitive disadvantage, including Ford, Toyota and others who had done all the hard work to put their own houses in order. Putting that crucial point aside, however, at least GM was transformed during its bankruptcy phase, w
owala cup ith factories shut and ridiculously generous union-negotiated wage and pension costs cut to more realistic levels.
owala The firm now makes money on every car it sells, rather than losing a packet.The IPO values GM at about $63bn. Roughly $23.1bn will have been raised, the biggest public offering in history, eclipsing the $22.1bn raked in by Agricultural Bank of China in July. This is an astonishing turnaround from GMrsquo near-death experience in 2008. Its rescue left the US Treasury with a 61 per cent stake, cut to 33 per cent yesterday. At $33 a share, the partial sale represents a loss of $9bn on taxpayersrsquo; original investments; however, the soaring share price means that they
