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National insurance increase and higher interest rates mean company failures will stay high, says Begbies Traynor

Single Trade Window designed to reduce friction on imports and exports will be halted until at least 2026 amid cost fears

Far from boosting growth, the Government’s economic plans are likely to do serious damage, making the nation’s finances much worse by the end of this decade.

The Treasury has made it clear that reform will be needed as Rachel Reeves begins pivotal review of public finances

Markets predict quarter-point cut to 5% when policymakers meet on Thursday

At a Jul. 22 meeting with IMF representatives, Ukraine’s Deputy Minister of Economy Tetyana Berezhna estimated that the country is 4.5 million people short of the population needed for economic recovery.

The economy grew by more than initially estimated in the first three months of 2024 as the UK emerged from recession, revised official figures show.

The metric bolsters a beleaguered Conservative party that had made inflation a central issue ahead of the July 4 election.

TUC says only Costa Rica had similar increase in first quarter as ONS data expected to show further rise in April

Drop in April is smaller than forecast but level is still lowest in almost three years

The 0.6 percent growth was stronger than analysts had expected.

China faces mounting challenges, the result of a real estate bubble, a stock market crisis, and a growing debt burden.

Post-Brexit checks will add more than £330m to annual business costs and 0.2% to food inflation over three years, the government admitted.

Dublin records near-doubling of tax revenue from duties on imports of clothing, food and other goods from Great Britain

Britain’s second-most-important tax is riddled with holes

Predictions for when Bank of England will start lowering cost of borrowing pushed back

Additional measures from 30 April for imported animal and plant products could hike costs by 10% in first year, says Allianz Trade