independent.co.uk – 30/06/2016 Brexit: UK construction sector heading for ‘brick wall’ as infrastructure projects suspended. Anxious international investors have already pushed the pause button on future UK infrastructure investments since last Friday’s…

irishtimes.com – 29/07/2016 Shock as Britain opts to review Hinkley Point nuclear plan Britain is to conduct a new review into a project led by French energy company EDF to build two…

BBC Business,14/10/2015 The UK unemployment rate fell to a seven-year low of 5.4% in the three months to August, figures have shown. It was the lowest jobless rate since the…

Financial Times, George Parker, Beijing & Christopher Adams, London– 21/09/2015.Additional reporting by Lucy Hornby and Conor Sullivan “The UK has opened the way for the first Chinese-designed nuclear power plant…

Reuters, Ana Nicolaci Da Costa – 18/09/2015 The Bank of England’s next move may be to cut interest rates rather than raise them, because of the risk of persistent low…

reuters.com, Allison Martell & Solarina Ho, ed. Jeffrey Hodgson – 01/09/15 Canada’s economy contracted by an annualized 0.5 percent in the second quarter, according to Statistics Canada data on Tuesday,…

Bloomberg, Brendan Greeley – 11/08/2015 Due to falling oil prices the Norwegian government has been “dipping” into their Sovereign Wealth fund. Norway’s Sovereign Wealth fund is one of the largest…

reuters.com, Johan Ahlander – 23/07/15 It is not often you hear banks pleading for tougher regulations, but in Sweden some of the industry’s top executives are demanding government action to…

The Guardian – 06/07/15 Country takes row over subsidies to European court of justice amid concerns UK project could distort energy market. Austria has filed a legal challenge at the…

BBC Business – 02/07/15 The Markit/CIPS Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) for the sector rose to 58.1 in June from 55.9 in May. A reading above 50 indicates expansion. Markit added…