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Image for UK shares mixed as investors assess fiscal worries, rate cut path
Finance

UK shares mixed as investors assess fiscal worries, rate cut path

(Reuters) -London's main stock indexes fell on Friday, weighed down by domestic fiscal worries and w...

4th July, 2025

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Finance

UK construction downturn eases as house-building improves, commercial work tanks

By Andy Bruce MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) -The downturn in Britain's construction industry abated...

4th July, 2025

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Finance

UK's MJ Gleeson sees fiscal 2026 profit at lower end of market expectations

(Reuters) -British homebuilder MJ Gleeson warned on Friday that profit for fiscal year 2026 will be...

4th July, 2025

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Britain and France hope migrant 'taxi boat' plan will slow record Channel crossings

By Gabriel Stargardter PARIS (Reuters) -Early one morning this week, a dinghy motored along a vast b...

4th July, 2025

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Crunch nears for UK's Reeves, with stability elusive and markets wary

By Andy Bruce, Kate Holton and Elizabeth Piper MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) -After a year in office...

4th July, 2025

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UK's Reeves to announce review of workplace pensions contributions, Financial Times reports

(Reuters) -British Finance Minister Rachel Reeves is expected to announce a shake-up of the UK pensi...

4th July, 2025

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Finance

Tesla's UK sales jump in June from a year earlier, data shows

(Reuters) -Tesla's new car sales in Britain grew 12% year-on-year in June, data from research group...

4th July, 2025

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Britain launches strategy to expand onshore wind, create jobs

By Susanna Twidale LONDON (Reuters) -Britain is launching its first ever onshore wind strategy, desi...

3rd July, 2025

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Finance

UK stocks stabilise a day after selloff on fiscal concerns

(Reuters) -The UK's main stock indexes rose on Thursday in broad-based gains after British Prime Min...

3rd July, 2025

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Finance

Quality of UK economic data concerning, quick fix unlikely, say economists: Reuters poll

By Indradip Ghosh BENGALURU (Reuters) -A clear majority of economists polled by Reuters are concerne...

3rd July, 2025

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Analysis-UK markets head back into troubled waters as fiscal angst rises

By Linda Pasquini (Reuters) -A string of policy U-turns has blown a hole in the UK government's budg...

3rd July, 2025

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UK's Reeves says she is getting on with her 'tough' job

LONDON (Reuters) -British finance minister Rachel Reeves said on Thursday that her job was difficult...

3rd July, 2025