Editor, Sustainable Finance

London
Joined April 2009
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Simon Jessop retweeted
Very good point. Also important to know, after a lifetime in economic commentary, that I’ve never yet seen a 15 year forecast that was correct. Indeed most were hopelessly wrong xitter.cf/bbclaurak/status/96131…
Replying to @bbclaurak
Important to note forecasts are for a fifteen year period - and predict how much more slowly the economy would grow, not how much it would shrink
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Exclusive: German government raises 2018 growth forecast to 2.4 percent - sources lnkd.in/eqqUQpg
Simon Jessop retweeted
A year ago Goldman Sachs forecast sterling would fall from $1.25 to $1.14 in 2017. In fact, it rose to $1.35. Goldman also forecast 10-year gilt yields (cost of government borrowing) would rise from 1.28% to 1.65%. They fell to 1.19% by end-Dec.
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