Handelsbanken Insights Economic Update

Welcome back to the first Economic Update of 2022, with James Sproule. In this episode James talks through the high frequency data for 2021, supply chain and energy costs at the end of last year, PMI's, the Bank of England's Mortgage and Consumer credit data, and lastly, property.

Join James for his weekly insights on the UK's economic data. This week, sharing his thoughts on; Covid and a potential new wave, UK GDP and trade figures, interest rates, rates of return and life satisfaction.

Join us for our weekly economic update. This week, James shares his insights on freight rates, mortgage and credit data, PMIs for the UK and EU, business investment in 2022, and finally, house prices.

Listen to our latest instalment of Handelsbanken Insights, with Richard Winder, Head of Sustainability UK and James Sproule. Chief Economist for the UK, as they share their thoughts on COP26, and what this means for banking and the UK economy. 

Join James for his weekly discussion on the UK economy. This week, focusing on Google and Apple’s data on our movements here in the UK, but also internationally and discussing what the future of our working patterns look like. James also shares his insights on the UK Purchasing Managers Survey, foreign exchange markets amongst the emergence of lockdowns, before finally turning to the UK workforce,...

Join us for our weekly discussion on the UK economy with James Sproule. This week, James looks at Apple’s data on our movements, employment figures and ‘the great resignation’, inflation concerns, retail sales as we near Christmas, GDP and UK housing.

Join us this week as James shares his thoughts on high frequency data, GDP figures, UK trade and an insight into our recently released Global Markets Forecast. James also looks at COP 26, and the effects of sustainability on housing and UK businesses.

In this week's economic update, James discusses the ‘new normal’ high frequency data, the Bank of England’s recent decision on interest rates, employment and furlough, house prices, the decrease in business support, foreign travel and, finally, global connectivity. 

Tune in for this week’s Economic update with James, sharing his insights on the UK macro-economic forecast, inflationary concerns, consumer confidence, Government borrowing, business confidence, shipping, and of course, the Budget.

Join James for his weekly economic update. This week we dive into the latest high frequency data, GDP figures, earnings and employment data, trade figures, construction and the industry, and finally, a new government wellbeing survey and the effect on the economy.

Join James for a discussion on the latest economic data. This week James shares his insights on the latest business surveys, savings and their effect on the economy, the start of new businesses, moving back in to the office, what indicators show the improvement of the economy, consumers and their behaviour, shipping costs and finally, chip shortages and what this means for inflation.

In this week's episode James talks us through the latest high frequency data, inflationary concerns, swaps and spreads, business and property investment, housing in a downturn, and finally house prices.

This week in our economic update, James shares his thoughts on high frequency data, the Purchasing Manager’s Index, Quantitative Easing, energy prices and the effects of Brexit, Public Sector Net Borrowing and then lastly, looking ahead to the Budget.

Chatting to our Chief Economist James Sproule, in this week's episode we discuss the UK’s latest economic data. We look at how London and the North of England compare in terms of recovery, at UK employment and earnings data, inflationary concerns, wealth in the UK in comparison to Europe, retail sales figures, and finally, non-cash transactions and what the implications of this could be for the ec...

Join us on this week's episode to hear James' views on how the UK is fairing compared to other major industrialised economies in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the effect of the Delta variant and the 'pingdemic' on the latest monthly GDP figures, trade and tax rises, the wider inflationary impact of rising shipping costs, house prices, and, finally, the European Central Bank, monetary polic...

Join Richard Winder, Head of Sustainability at Handelsbanken, as he discusses the role banks will play in retrofitting the UK’s diverse and aging housing stock with director of sustainability strategy consultancy RePattern, James Vaccaro, in our latest podcast episode.

Tune in for this week's episode in which James shares his insights on what mobility data is saying about how quickly we are getting back to our offices, the latest PMI data, UK credit numbers and what they mean, house prices, and, finally, the impact of globalisation on inflation. 

Join James this week as he discusses the latest market data. Focusing this week on, retail and air travel, UK employment figures, the Purchasing Managers Index, the big event of last week, the Jackson Hole Central Bankers Summit and finally, a quick update on our recent release of the Global Markets Forecast. 

In this week’s economic update James shares his insights on summer holiday data, asking - are people getting out and about, and are they shopping? We also take a look at inflation, debt markets and areas of concern, earnings and employment data and, finally, public sector borrowing.

Join us this week for a discussion on the effects of Coronavirus on the UK and the economy – asking, is it still a danger? We also take a look at GDP, Cap Gemini’s World Wealth Report, before finally turning to property and the ‘dash for space’.

This week we're back focusing on the UK economy. James shares his insights on how quickly we might reach 'normal', Handelsbanken's Global Market Forecast, UK PMIs, news from the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee, online retail sales and lastly, house prices. 

Back from his staycation, James shares his views on the latest UK economic data, and this week, in a special bumper edition, shares insights on the environment and the economy – all in under 10 minutes.

Join James for a discussion on the latest economic data – taking a look at Halifax’s house prices, June’s Purchasing Managers Index, GDP and production data, and finally, share trading. 

Join our Head of External Affairs, Richard Winder, and CEO of The Chartered Banker Institute, Simon Thompson, for a discussion on the rise of green and sustainable finance. 

In this week’s economic update James looks at shipping rates, house prices, consumer credit and the overall state of the economy, consumer spending and finally last week's Mansion House speeches.