UK Borrowing Jumps in December as Debt Interest Climbs
(Reuters) - Britain ran a bigger-than-expected budget deficit in December, swelled by debt interest costs and a one-off ...
UK budget deficit surges in December as debt interest hits
Britain ran a bigger-than-expected budget deficit in December, swelled by debt interest and a one-off purchase of military ...
Murder teen's mum calls for 'hidden homicide' data
Claire Gould has found that data on what she calls "hidden homicides" is not recorded by the Office for National Statistics ...
U.K. Government Borrowing Jumps as Interest Payments Rise
The budget deficit surged in the final month of 2024, underlining the challenge facing the government in meeting its fiscal ...
Working from home 'not proper work' - ex-Asda boss
Working from home is creating a generation who are "not doing proper work", the former boss of Marks and Spencer and Asda has ...
Sterling dips after data shows slower UK economic growth
The pound fell on Thursday after data showed the British economy grew more slowly than expected in November, which could give ...
U.K. Economy Returns to Growth, But Faces Uncertain Outlook
GDP was 0.1% higher in November than it was in October, but that is unlikely to mark the start of a recovery that will be ...
The Great British bond sell-off is ending for the worst possible reason. U.S. yields are following.
Britain’s debt turmoil was easing in a dramatic way on Friday after data showing U.K. retail sales actually fell during the ...
Chancellor urges regulators to ‘tear down’ red tape in bid for growth
It came after fresh data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed that the UK economy grew by a ...
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Surprise flop in retail sales in December after ‘poor’ month for supermarkets
The volume of retail sales, which measures the quantity bought, fell by 0.3% in December, the Office for National Statistics ...
Labour faces fresh 'Stagflation' fears: Jobs and vacancies dip while pay gathers pace - making it harder for BoE to cut interest rates to help stalling economy
Fears over 'Stagflation' were fuelled today as figures showed jobs and vacancies dipping while pay gathered pace. Numbers on ...
U.K. Government Borrowing Jumps as Interest Payments Rise — Update
Yields on U.K. government bonds--which are known as gilts--surged in early January, and although they have since fallen back somewhat, they remain above the levels assumed by the OBR when it was ...