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Research Date 29 Jul 2016 The $200bn cost of Brexit Almost four weeks on from the vote to leave the EU and the FTSE 250 has edged back up to just 0.4% below where it started before the polls closed... Read more
Report Date 27 Jul 2016 UK trade policy and Brexit Among the many implications of a UK exit from the EU is a fundamental change to the way that the UK makes and implements trade policy. As part of the... Read more
Research Date 27 Jul 2016 The Barnier Code: diplomacy by patronage reveals a more pragmatic Juncker Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has followed Theresa May in making a provocative and eye-catching appointment. This is partly to compensate for negotiations on both sides beginning to resemble a slow... Read more
Research Date 21 Jul 2016 The Art of the Deal for Britain lies in making Brexit a Chefsache for Europe Amid the macho jostling between British politicians to set out ‘red lines’ for negotiating post-Brexit arrangements with the EU, where will British Prime Minister Theresa May turn for guidance? Rather... Read more
Research Date 20 Jul 2016 Iran one year on: where are all the businesses? The nuclear deal between Iran and the West was no ‘grand bargain’. It was a narrow agreement to curb the Iranian nuclear programme in return for Western sanctions relief. Tehran... Read more
Research Date 20 Jul 2016 A state-controlled Rosneft privatisation under BP watch The long-anticipated privatisation of the 19.5% government-owned stake in Russia’s largest oil company, Rosneft has finally started to take shape with the government expected to reveal their offer to investors... Read more
Research Date 19 Jul 2016 The right to bear ARMs Take one “jewel in the crown” of British industry – something export-heavy, research-intensive, tech-driven. Combine with a hard-talking new Prime Minister and a fresh commitment to review and defend foreign... Read more
Report Date 14 Jul 2016 Realizing TTIP's Strategic Potential The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) currently being negotiated between the European Union and the United States has been sold by politicians on both sides as a strategic opportunity... Read more
Research Date 12 Jul 2016 Getting real about the UK’s post-Brexit trade policy options Former UK Europe minister, David Davis was the latest UK politician to set out in print yesterday a post-Brexit manifesto for UK trade policy. In both substance and form, his... Read more
Research Date 11 Jul 2016 The Renzi dilemma What connects a bank in Sienna to a voter in Sunderland? Simple answer: they both have a problem with the EU, or think they do. Matteo Renzi wants a state... Read more
Research Date 8 Jul 2016 There’s real estate, and then there’s real estate My colleague Ying Staton writes today in Singapore’s The Straits Times that values in the UK’s housing market will remain robust, after a few short-term jitters. Yet a cursory glance... Read more
Research Date 8 Jul 2016 Russia: Big Brother for ‘Big Four’ Just before the Russian State Duma was dissolved for the September elections, it voted for the controversial amendments to the counter-terrorism legislation dubbed the ‘Big Brother Law’. The new amendments... Read more
Research Date 7 Jul 2016 Brexit upside for Chinese investors I have spent this week in Shanghai and Beijing explaining the likely consequences of the vote for Brexit to investors and hearing their views. The referendum result has surprised Chinese... Read more
Research Date 6 Jul 2016 The Heathrow test The political manoeuvring over Heathrow expansion is a case study in political risk and the final decision, recently postponed once again, will present an important test for David Cameron’s successor... Read more
Research Date 5 Jul 2016 The UK’s ‘Canada Option’ just got even more difficult There are reports today that the European Commission is on the verge of the declaring the EU-Canada CETA a mixed agreement, paving the way for it to be ratified via... Read more
Research Date 30 Jun 2016 Brexit and energy: the only certainty is uncertainty In the midst of some of the most tumultuous events ever seen in UK politics, Energy Minister Andrea Leadsom’s appearance yesterday before the Energy and Climate Change Committee received little... Read more
Research Date 30 Jun 2016 Peering through the Brexit fog It was hard to imagine before 23 June that the uncertainty about what exactly ‘Out’ would mean could get any worse. But since the vote all sorts of ideas have... Read more
Research Date 30 Jun 2016 Banking on Norway-lite My colleague Gregor Irwin has just published a great blog on the ‘room in the middle’ between the views of the supporters of Brexit in the UK and the emerging... Read more