Prudential Results The unexpectedly good results from the Pru, coming together with other good results from insurance companies offering investment products, is due in significant part to the rise in sales volumes of savings, which are now flowing very strongly. This is another piece of good news liable to be lost in the worries about […]
The Tories and Lib Dems Commentators, without Parliament sitting, find it harder to run stories about strains between the coalition partners as a decamped Westminster village scatters its rumour mill to the four winds. Attention has again turned to whether the Lib Dems, with very low poll ratings, are going to disappear into the Conservatives, […]
Iraq Pull Out The top Iraqi General has said he would like U.S troops to stay another twenty years. This is clearly impossible, although I am sure there are elemnts in the Pentagon who would love it. What the General’s comments underline is the chronic instability of the Iraqi State as a viable, self sustaining […]