Following Devon County Council’s report that retail is performing poorly in Devon, the same trend is happening nationally as retail sales fell in August for the first time since January …
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Hilton hotel for Exeter
It is emerging that a new 160-bedroom hotel is to be built at Exeter Airport. It appears to be a joint venture by Hilton and Hampton, two giants of the hotel world. The name for the complex is said to be: The Hampton By Hilton Exeter Airport Hotel …
Devon’s economy improves again
Devon County Council is reporting that the county’s unemployment figures have dropped for the sixth consecutive month. The number of people claiming Job Seekers Allowance (JSA) in Devon fell to 8,208, a drop of 0.7% …
Is the European Union dying?
While Devon and Cornwall remain largely Eurosceptic, Cornwall in particular has benefited from EU funding. Could such funds dry up in the near future? …
Sell shares now, warns guru
Economics guru Albert Edwards, a strategist at Société Générale, is warning of a “bloodbath” in share markets in the months to come. October is a traditional month for a stock market crash and it’s beginning to look ominous for 2010 …
Women in the workplace
In a working world where women continue to struggle to compete with men for the highest paid positions of responsibility and we still see apparent injustices of gender equality challenged from time to time …
Economic outlook very uncertain
It’s a moot point whether the UK economy is worse than America’s. The US is heading into a second bout of the “Great Recession,” as the IMF has called it. Money supply is melting away at 10pc a year …
Vince Cable wants to transform Devon and Cornwall
Regional economies built chiefly on large scale public sector employment are artificial economies: economies on life support. The detail suggests the last government got important things wrong; an excessive dependence on the banking sector. We now need the counterbalance of private sector jobs and enterprise.
eurozone danger for business
Almost the minimum that can happen now is an awesome deflation across Europe and America — already the US money supply is shrinking at an alarming 10% on an annualized basis. A double-dip recession is at the benign end of the spectrum …
Saltash software developer goes global
Who says Cornwall is a quaint backwater, known only for surfing and sea views? Look behind the facade and you’ll soon spot world-class technology companies hidden away in places like Saltash …
