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    UK ‘well placed’ to obtain enough gas this winter, says biggest network operator

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  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
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    UK recruiters report fresh slowdown in hiring as planned tax rises bite

    Survey results will heighten investor concerns over stagflation threat in economy

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  • Wednesday, 8 January, 2025
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    Hyve aims to double in size as business conferences boom

    UK-based group now under private equity ownership seeks acquisitions in corporate events market

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  • Wednesday, 8 January, 2025
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    UK watchdog bans adverts featuring burning dollars

    Posters from Islamic finance start-up Wahed Invest likely to cause ‘serious offence’, rules ASA

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  • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
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    Regeneration scheme should be investigated over value-for-money concerns, deputy prime minister Angela Rayner told

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  • Sunday, 5 January, 2025
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    Tax and wage rises have caused confidence to ‘slump’, warns British Chambers of Commerce

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    ‘There will be a bit of a slump’: London braced for luxury hotel glut

    Biggest number of room openings in more than a decade prompts concerns about oversupply and price cuts

  • Friday, 3 January, 2025
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    Can the creative industries add stardust to UK’s stalling economy?

    Ministers look to booming sector as wider growth loses momentum

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  • Friday, 3 January, 2025
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    Worries about running out of money makes people frugal and wary of taking any big pension decisions

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  • Friday, 3 January, 2025
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    UK heading for tax rises despite return to growth, economists say

    The FT’s annual poll forecasts better performance than France and Germany

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  • Sunday, 29 December, 2024
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    Wine estates are struggling to attract buyers while dealing with a poor 2024 harvest

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  • Monday, 23 December, 2024
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    UK economy unexpectedly failed to grow in third quarter

    Figures are a further blow to government facing criticism from businesses after Budget

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  • Monday, 23 December, 2024
    Martin Wolf
    The UK government must make sure it isn’t a confidence killer

    There is a danger that animal spirits and the propensity to invest expire in a vicious downward spiral

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  • Monday, 23 December, 2024
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    Investor urges inquiry into ‘structural failings’ at UK Takeover Panel

    Julian Treger was sanctioned by mergers and acquisitions watchdog in landmark case this year

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  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
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    Reeves heads into harsh 2025 as UK Budget damage reverberates

    Chancellor plans set-piece new year speech to reboot growth ‘mission’ as invidious fiscal choices loom

  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
    Business heading for ‘January of discontent’, says Tory ex-minister

    Shadow business secretary Andrew Griffith warns of recession risk after Labour ‘trash talked’ the economy

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  • Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
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    UK borrowing costs climb as ‘stagflation’ fear stalks gilt market

    Stubborn inflation and stalling growth have driven yields back to the highs reached after October’s Budget

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  • Monday, 16 December, 2024
    UK economy
    Higher business taxes take toll on UK economy as companies cut back hiring

    Fall in private sector employment blamed on Reeves’ £25bn increase in employers’ national insurance contributions

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  • Monday, 16 December, 2024
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    London’s shrinking stock market

    The travails of the LSE reflect deeper problems in the UK’s business environment

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  • Monday, 16 December, 2024
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    UK private sector employment shrinks at fastest pace since 2021

    S&P data for December follows tax rises on business in autumn Budget

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  • Monday, 16 December, 2024
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    UK manufacturing confidence slumps after Reeves’ Budget

    Data from Make UK complicates picture for BoE rate-setters as they contemplate how quickly to cut interest rates

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  • Friday, 13 December, 2024
    UK GDP
    UK economy unexpectedly shrinks by 0.1%

    October contraction marks second consecutive fall and deals blow to Labour government’s economic agenda

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  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Martin Wolf
    Reckoning with an era of slow growth

    Opportunities exist for the UK and its European neighbours, but they must grasp the nettle of economic reform

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  • Saturday, 7 December, 2024
    Jonathan Eley
    Triumph of the orcs: why Britain needs more Games Workshops

    Those who despair at the UK’s inability to spawn a Facebook should look to the country’s creative industries

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  • Saturday, 7 December, 2024
    Brexit
    Rachel Reeves to pledge ‘ambitious’ economic partnership with EU

    UK chancellor will promise to fully honour post-Brexit deals in meeting with bloc’s finance ministers

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