James Moore
Columnist at The Independent
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6 days ago |
independent.co.uk | James Moore
CommentBritain’s second-biggest grocer has a tough road ahead if it is to keep the promises CEO Simon Roberts has made to both shoppers and investors Welcome to the £1bn club, Sainsbury’s. Fresh from revealing such estimable profits, the grocer reckons it can see off its rivals in the supermarket price war – also known as the best news for the UK consumer in years – and retain its membership. Has CEO Simon Roberts found some magic beans?
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1 week ago |
independent.co.uk | James Moore
CommentBritain’s second biggest grocer has a tough road ahead of it if it is to keep the promises CEO Simon Roberts has made to both shoppers and investors Welcome to the £1bn club, Sainsbury’s. Fresh from revealing such estimable profits, the grocer reckons it can see off its rivals in the supermarket price war – also known as the best news for the UK consumer in years – and retain its membership. Has CEO Simon Roberts somehow found some magic beans?
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1 week ago |
independent.co.uk | James Moore
CommentYes, inflation has taken a tumble – but don’t expect any big moves just yet, warns James Moore Price rises eased again in March raising a question which has borrowers on tenterhooks: Could the Bank of England go big at its next meeting? The official rate of inflation in March fell from 2.8 per cent to 2.6 per cent, with the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) undershooting economists forecasts (2.7 per cent) – just as it did in February.
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1 week ago |
independent.co.uk | James Moore
Comment The number of vacancies has fallen below pre-pandemic levels for the first time since 2021, writes James Moore. This, combined with the incoming employer NICs hike, will all but destroy the ‘working people’ Labour claim it seeks to protectDuring her autumn Budget, Rachel Reeves hiked employer national insurance contributions (NICs) to plug a gaping hole in the public finances, claiming that this was not a tax on “working people”.
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1 week ago |
independent.co.uk | James Moore
Comment The decline of British Steel is a story of political failure, economic turmoil and the unintended consequences of net zero, writes James Moore. Rather than asking whether the government can rescue it – we should perhaps be asking if it should… What could still be the death of the British steel industry pains me. As a child in Stocksbridge, on the edge of Sheffield, I grew up around it. My father worked for British Steel. So did my grandparents.
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