Editor's letter - February 2015
“The sector is setting a course into 2015 with increasing levels of good cheer”
There are plenty of reasons to be fearful about economic matters, if you choose. You could worry about the Eurozone breaking apart in a particularly messy way, the general election leading to no viable government or any of a number of scenarios that could stall the recovery. But overall I believe that there are far more reasons to be cheerful.
The brokers we contacted were happy to go on record with the fact that their levels of optimism about their businesses are rising.
The reaction to Biba’s
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