Manufacturers are banking on export boom to offset weak UK demand
Britain's factories are relying on the global economy withstanding the impact of higher interest rates to compensate for the weakness of domestic order books, the CBI sai...
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Election spending puts Labour and Tories deep into the red
Labour and Conservative party finances were today revealed to be in a perilous state following last year's general election, with Labour trebling its debt in just 12 mont...
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Financially excluded are benefiting from credit unions
Credit unions are successfully reaching people who are financially excluded, offering them cheaper forms of borrowing, research showed today.
Nearly a quarter of people ...
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Manchester United backer takes £25m stake in Cobra Beer
One of the US hedge funds that provided financing for sports tycoon Malcolm Glazer's takeover of Manchester United has become a major investor in Cobra Beer, which claims...
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Growth in jobless a problem for export-led Asia
Asia's economic boom may have generated formidable wealth in the region's most robust economies in recent years, but the surge in exports has resulted in a rise in inequa...
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GUS sees mixed results at both divisions ahead of demerger
Stores and credit information group GUS reported mixed results from its two divisions yesterday, ahead of its planned demerger in October.
The retail division, which con...
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Economic growth
What is economic growth?
Economic growth is the most fundamental indicator of an economy's health - the rate at which national income is growing. It is measured by the a...
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First players win cash as game heats up
The FIFA World Cup ends today, but our free Investor of the Year competition, sponsored by stockbroker The Share Centre, is just beginning to hot up.
Remember you can en...
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Two-thirds 'support recycling tax incentives
Nearly two-thirds of people would be prepared to pay a tax on the non-recyclable rubbish they generated, a survey published today found.
Around 64% of those questioned s...
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Welfare bill plans to take 1 million off incapacity benefit
Radical changes to the social security system aimed at saving billions of pounds in incapacity and housing benefit payments were announced yesterday by John Hutton, the w...
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