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Bruce Wayne said:
So again, despite you having but a cursory insight (at best) into the life of an academic researcher, you're saying that you know more about the impact of this on their work than they do?

Paula Salgado, lecturer in macromolecular crystallography at Newcastle University, said the increase on Fisher products translates to roughly an extra £1,000 for her lab.

“That will mean we'll be able to afford fewer items than before. To give you an estimate, we get approximately £15,000 - £20,000 a year for consumables in my current grant. Over the past two years, I spent nearly that much on Fisher products, so this price increase will have a clear effect,” she said.

Oh, and btw, on your earlier point about UK suppliers of reagent, Newmarket Scientific are a British company.
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Bruce, if you go into any research establishment, the same people across a whole spectrum of products will complain about funding. It's pretty usual to find that the same people have been dealing with their favoured suppliers for years and have built up close relations. It is also usual that when you force said establishments to seek either better terms or a different supplier they will fight it then actually do so...

These are the top ten export product types from the UK....

Machines, engines, pumps: US$63.9 billion (13.9% of total exports)
Gems, precious metals: $53 billion (11.5%)
Vehicles: $50.7 billion (11%)
Pharmaceuticals: $36 billion (7.8%)
Oil: $33.2 billion (7.2%)
Electronic equipment: $29 billion (6.3%)
Aircraft, spacecraft: $18.9 billion (4.1%)
Medical, technical equipment: $18.4 billion (4%)
Organic chemicals: $14 billion (3%)
Plastics: $11.8 billion (2.6%)

Anything the researchers/scientists/engineers want, we have an alternative.......
 
Whilst Q3 GDP figures beat forecasts, it nust be remembered that growth fell from 0.7% to 0.5%.

The fact that we had any growth at all is down to three factors, (i) the immediate assistance provided by the independent BoE (ii) continued growth in the service sector, aided by a blockbuster performance from the film industry with their summer releases and (iii) the impact of a falling sterling on service acquisition overseas.

None of these factors are sustainable, one was an emergency response, one seasonal and the other a reflection of currency devalustion.

Worrying apart from services the three other sectors of the UK economy — industrial production, construction and agriculture — all contracted during Q3. The fall in industrial production is particularly worrying.

Re the Nissan deal is very good news in isolation, it is telling that there has been no comment on the type of encouragements the UK government has had to offer to strike the deal. The assumption is that the UK government has agreed to underwrite any tarrif costs on Nissan's exporting of cars from the Sunderland plant. Whilst I understand why such a deal has been struck, -it cannot be considered sustainable long term and across the wider economy for obvious reasons.
 
Joey66 said:
No forecast recession though if Brexit won?
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Three out of the four sectors in the economy contracted in Q3 despite BoE intervention and a massively depreciated currency and this when the UK Government kicked the brexit can down the street.

Whilst better than anticipated it's not milk and honey Joey.
 
The Esk said:
Re the Nissan deal is very good news in isolation, it is telling that there has been no comment on the type of encouragements the UK government has had to offer to strike the deal. The assumption is that the UK government has agreed to underwrite any tarrif costs on Nissan's exporting of cars from the Sunderland plant. Whilst I understand why such a deal has been struck, -it cannot be considered sustainable long term and across the wider economy for obvious reasons.
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That was certainly what Ghosn was pushing for. Given the reliance of the local economy on those factories he had a very strong position to demand such things. Quite how any such subsidies would go down in future negotiations with the EU/WTO though I'm not sure.
 
Worth pointing out that the effect of currency devaluation hasn't really been felt yet for most consumers. Inflation will rise and your wages will be squeezed.

Purchasing power will dimish, so will spending on non-essentials. That is often a pre-cursor for a recession.
 
The Esk said:
Whilst Q3 GDP figures beat forecasts, it nust be remembered that growth fell from 0.7% to 0.5%.

The fact that we had any growth at all is down to three factors, (i) the immediate assistance provided by the independent BoE (ii) continued growth in the service sector, aided by a blockbuster performance from the film industry with their summer releases and (iii) the impact of a falling sterling on service acquisition overseas.

None of these factors are sustainable, one was an emergency response, one seasonal and the other a reflection of currency devalustion.

Worrying apart from services the three other sectors of the UK economy — industrial production, construction and agriculture — all contracted during Q3. The fall in industrial production is particularly worrying.

Re the Nissan deal is very good news in isolation, it is telling that there has been no comment on the type of encouragements the UK government has had to offer to strike the deal. The assumption is that the UK government has agreed to underwrite any tarrif costs on Nissan's exporting of cars from the Sunderland plant. Whilst I understand why such a deal has been struck, -it cannot be considered sustainable long term and across the wider economy for obvious reasons.
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So everyone expected 0.3% growth and we got 0.5%........and still everyone moans

Meanwhile a Nissan deal,of which no one on here knows the details, cannot be considered sustainable against assumed criteria that no one yet knows.....

Just for once Esk, would it really kill you to say, not a bad day.......
 
peteblue said:
So everyone expected 0.3% growth and we got 0.5%........and still everyone moans

Meanwhile a Nissan deal,of which no one on here knows the details, cannot be considered sustainable against assumed criteria that no one yet knows.....

Just for once Esk, would it really kill you to say, not a bad day.......
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It's not a bad day, it could even be said that it's quite a good day.

But Rome wasn't built in a day.
 
The Esk said:
Three out of the four sectors in the economy contracted in Q3 despite BoE intervention and a massively depreciated currency and this when the UK Government kicked the brexit can down the street.

Whilst better than anticipated it's not milk and honey Joey.
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It's not an immediate recession either the doom and gloom merchants need to get on board!
 
Yes, for a business solution with no proper IT, one would have to pay for support, like with microsoft. Linux/Unix have taken lots of the market from ms in recent times, and long may it continue.
Bruce Wayne said:
For sure, but I doubt many research institutions will go with a free distribution, so you'd still have to pay for a Red Hat or someone of that ilk, especially on the server side as processing the kind of data generated is likely to be costly.
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Pienaar's gloves said:
Worth pointing out that the effect of currency devaluation hasn't really been felt yet for most consumers. Inflation will rise and your wages will be squeezed.

Purchasing power will dimish, so will spending on non-essentials. That is often a pre-cursor for a recession.
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More doom and gloom by the way the BOE only forecast o.1 growth experts hey as Growth was 0.5 percent ;)
Rome was not built in a day consumer spending up by 4 percent ;)
 
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