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Thursday 02 November 2017 9:29 amNo monkey business: What the finance industry can learn by going back to basicsBy: Katherine DenhamShareFacebookShare on FacebookXShare on TwitterLinkedInShare on LinkedInWhatsAppShare on WhatsAppEmailShare on EmailAdd as a preferredsourc
polene bag e on GoogleThere s a lot we can learn from our closest relatives. And no, Irsquo;m not talking about human relatives. Irsquo;m talking about those in the animal kingdom: monkeys.One thing monkeys can teach us about humankind is our predisposition to gamble. Yoursquo;re probably wondering when you last saw a monkey in Paddy Power. And since when did monkeys give a monkey about money It turns out that monkeys are quite partial to orange juice, according to Greg Carter, who heads up newly launched peer-to-peer P2P platform Growth Street.The idea harks back to Carterrsquo university days when he studied risk-taking behaviour as part of his neuroscience degree. When given a choice between a variable amount of juice as a reward,
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Tuesday 12 October 2010 9:18 pm|Updated:Thursday 30 May 2019 7:20 amConfidence fell in SeptemberBy: KCS-contentShareFacebookShare on FacebookXShare on TwitterLinkedInShare on LinkedInWhatsAppShare on WhatsAppEmailShare on EmailAdd as a preferredsource on GoogleFEARS among consumers of imminent government measures to slash public spending have intensified, prompting confidence to plummet last month and wiping out the gain seen in August, the Nationwide September survey will say today. T
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stanley cup uk more than a year and well below its long-term average of 83. More worryingly, confidence in spending took a sizeable knock last month, with the spending index at its lowest since November 2008 at the height of the financial cris
stanley cup is. Martin Gahbauer, chief economist at Nationwide, said: It would seem that the pessimistic sentiments of a few months ago have been renewed and this has perhaps been driven by a realisation of the true impact of the cuts announced in the emergency Budget. The governmentrsquo impending spending review is likely to have a strong influence on consumer confidence in the coming weeks.The expectations index fell by 12 points during September to 73 and reversed the previous increase in sentiment. This index has now fallen by 47 points since February.Gahbauer said it would need a significant shift in sentiment to reverse this downward trend. However, consumers expressed a guarded optimism to