Barclays boss predicts biggest economic boom since 1948
Jes Staley gives his upbeat assessment on the day Barclays reveals profits have more than doubled. …
It is probably wrong to talk in terms of an economic boom after we have seen the biggest economic downturn in 300 years, but Mr Staley is in tune with his US counterparts when he hopes and expects that, for him and his many business customers, the worst is behind us.