UK FINANCIAL HISTORY 1950 – 2016
£182,494
£100,000
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ECONOMIC INDICATORS
30
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RPI – annual % change (quarterly)
25
Bank base rates (quarterly avg.)
20
GDP – annual % change (quarterly)
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Interest rates hit 15%
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Stockmarket hits 62
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15
Big Bang in the city
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Unemployment tops 3 million
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England, Wales, Northern Ireland introduce smoking ban
Scotland introduces smoking ban
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First test tube baby born
‘Black Wednesday’ stockmarket crisis
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UK gets £2,300 million from IMF
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5
0
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-5
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UK joins EEC
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USSR Lunik reaches the moon
£1,000
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Elizabeth II’s coronation
Bay of Pigs invasion
DNA structure deciphered
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North Sea oil discovered
Berlin Wall constructed
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Stalin dies
Everest conquered
On The Waterfront
The Suez crisis
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England win World Cup
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Dr No
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Brighton bomb
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UK leaves ERM
Compact Disc launched
The Towering Inferno
Grease
E.T.
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German reunification
Pretty Woman
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Ebola outbreak
£10,749
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War in Iraq
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Crimea/Ukraine crises
Gaddafi killed
Tsunami strikes Asia
Irish bail-out
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European debt crisis
Trump elected
VW emission scandal
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Eurozone unemployment hits historic high
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ISIS offensive
Typhoon Yolanda devastates Philippines
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Avatar
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Oscar Pistorius trial
World population reaches 7bn
Casino Royale
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ATTLEE
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King’s Skyfall
Speech
CHURCHILL
EDEN
MACMILLAN
HOME
WILSON
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HEATH
WILSON
CALLAGHAN
THATCHER
MAJOR
BLAIR
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UK Building Society Index
Income Reinvested
£3,134
Retail Prices Index
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£88
Value of £100 indexed from 1950.
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Figures calculated on a gross basis.
Source: Barclays Equity Gilt Study,
Datastream and Internal.
The
Force
Awakens
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CAMERON
Barclays Gilt Price Index
Ex-Income
Scales calculated on a logarithmic basis.
Brussels attacks
Paris attacks
£10
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Brexit
WorldCom bankruptcy
Chicago
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£5,559
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Sterling tumbles
Chinese stockmarket crash
Enron bankruptcy scandal
September 11th
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Malaysia Airlines crashes
Economic downturn affects the world
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The Shard opens
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Barclays Equity Price Index
Ex-Dividends
Barclays Gilt Index
Income Reinvested
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Global climate change agreement
FSA replaced by FCA/PRA
Euro becomes legal tender
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Bomb rocks World Trade Centre
Saving Private Ryan
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Official opening of Scottish Parliament
Queen Elizabeth II’s Golden Jubilee
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Scottish independence referendum
Good Friday Agreement
Barings collapse
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News of World closes
Cuba/US reconciliation
Millennium celebrations
Bombings in London
Forrest Gump
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Cyprus bail-out
60th anniversary of VE Day
The Gulf War
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Eurozone debt crisis
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Nelson Mandela dies
Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee
Black Monday – stockmarket falls 25%
Platoon
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Greek bail-outs
Death of Princess of Wales
Maastricht Treaty
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Credit crunch rocks USA
Poll Tax introduced in Scotland
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The Miners’ Strike
US combat troops arrive in Vietnam
Love Story
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AIDS identified
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“Pound in your pocket” – Wilson
Alfie
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Personal Computer launched by IBM
Decimalisation
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Bin Laden killed
Hong Kong handover
Nelson Mandela freed
Chernobyl disaster
Strikes, unemployment and the Winter of Discontent
Yuri Gagarin – First man in space
“You’ve never had it so good” – Macmillan
Gigi
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£9,620
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Kennedy assassinated
£100
Stone of Destiny stolen
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“Rivers of Blood” – Powell
Moon landing
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London wins Olympic bid
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Bangladesh factory disaster
UK Interest Rates set at 0.5%
Poll Tax riots
Falklands War
End of rationing
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Plaza accord
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Banking debt crisis hits UK
Single European Market begins
Japanese interest rates at record low of 0.5%
Ceasefire in Vietnam
London Olympics
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Japanese earthquake
Lockerbie disaster
10
£10,000
Northern Rock crisis
Berlin Wall comes down
Barclays Equity Index
Dividends Reinvested
MAY
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