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Image for FTSE slips as UK inflation returns to 40-year high, banks under pressure
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FTSE slips as UK inflation returns to 40-year high, banks under pressure

By Sruthi Shankar (Reuters) -UK’s main stock indexes fell on Wednesday after data showed consumer pr...

19th October, 2022

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UK fund managers suffer asset declines on shaky markets

By Sinchita Mitra and Yadarisa Shabong (Reuters) – A quartet of British fund managers said assets un...

19th October, 2022

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Analysis-UK crisis forces ‘off kilter’ businesses to halt investment

By Kate Holton and James Davey LONDON (Reuters) – British company owners are pulling investments as...

18th October, 2022

Image for UK gilt yields rise as BoE pooh-poohs report of delay to bond sales
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UK gilt yields rise as BoE pooh-poohs report of delay to bond sales

LONDON (Reuters) – British government bond yields rose after the Bank of England said it had not dec...

18th October, 2022

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Ryanair boss blames Brexit for UK economic ‘car crash’

By Alvise Armellini ROME (Reuters) -Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary on Tuesday described the economic s...

18th October, 2022

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Bond vigilantes mean business, governments better beware

(This Oct. 17 story has been refiled to add a dropped word in paragraph 2.) By Marc Jones and Yoruk...

18th October, 2022

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UK’s Truss: ‘Sorry’ for the mistakes, but ‘I’m sticking around’

LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s Prime Minister Liz Truss apologised for “mistakes” in her programme that...

18th October, 2022

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European shares rally as investors cheer UK policy reversal

By Amruta Khandekar, Sruthi Shankar and Devik Jain (Reuters) -Europe’ STOXX 600 index climbed on Mon...

17th October, 2022

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Britain’s political and market turmoil

LONDON (Reuters) – New finance minister Jeremy Hunt scrapped Prime Minister Liz Truss’s Sept. 23 min...

17th October, 2022

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Analysis-Despite tax U-turn, UK’s Hunt still faces tough budget choices

By William Schomberg LONDON (Reuters) – The screeching about-turn on tax cuts by finance minister Je...

17th October, 2022

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Dollar dips as UK budget U-turn improves market sentiment

By Karen Brettell NEW YORK (Reuters) – The dollar dipped against a basket of major currencies and st...

17th October, 2022

Image for UK consumer industries warn curbing energy support will hit demand
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UK consumer industries warn curbing energy support will hit demand

LONDON (Reuters) – The mood among Britain’s beleaguered retail and hospitality industries darkened o...

17th October, 2022