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09 January, 2020

Greggs rolling in dough

The Office of National Statistics’ verdict on UK productivity growth for Q3 2019 is out and it’s...not amazing. Per-hour output grew by 0.1% from July to September last year, compared to the same period in 2018.

08 January, 2020

IMF says tax the rich

Kristalina Georgieva, head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has said raising taxes on high earners would reduce inequality and can be done without damaging economic growth.

07 January, 2020

Credit card deals disappearing

There are fewer zero-interest credit card balance transfer deals available now than at any other time in the past 13 years.

06 January, 2020

HS2 hoodwinked government?

HS2 will connect London to the Midlands but the cost of it could spiral out of control, according to the former deputy chairman of the government's independent review into the infrastructure project.

03 January, 2020

The great British streaming binge

UK culture vultures splurged a record £3 billion on streaming music, films and TV last year.

02 January, 2020

First-time buyer numbers up

There were 353,436 first-time home buyers in 2019, the highest since 2007.

31 December, 2019

Wages on the rise

The national living wage is set to jump by 6.2% next year. The increase is more than four times the rate of inflation and means hourly pay for people over the age of 25 will be £8.72 from April.

30 December, 2019

Champagne sales fall flat

Celebrating? You probably aren’t doing it with a bottle of champers. Sales of champagne plummeted by 28% in the last 12 months as its popularity in the UK continues to trickle away.

24 December, 2019

Bank caused baby boom

Do you have a kid that turned 10 this year? If so, you may remember that heady time when (according to the Bank of England) everyone rushed to have children because of...low interest rates.

23 December, 2019

Do you believe...in the UK economy?

Business confidence in the UK economy has soared to its highest level in three years, according to the Institute of Directors (IoD).

20 December, 2019

We’re 100 issues old!

There’s a new governor of the Bank of England: Andrew Bailey has been named as the person to take over from Mark Carney in March.

19 December, 2019

Google and Facebook crackdown

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has recommended that the UK should consider tough rules for big online players like Google and Facebook.

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