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...UK business activity rose more than expected in April and posted its fastest expansion since last May, according to a survey that also flagged intensifying cost pressures....
...UK business activity rose more than expected in April, marking the fastest expansion since last May, according to a survey that also flagged increasing cost pressures in the economy....
...The index, which has lagged behind its peers in Europe in 2024, rose 1.9 per cent on Thursday....
...New orders for services companies rose at the fastest pace since May 2023, but manufacturers indicated that their continuous two-year decline in demand only worsened in April....
...I think Pilita Clark’s article on April 1 has got it wrong on Rishi Sunak’s decision to row back on the UK’s net zero commitments (“Britain’s quiet green business success story”, Business Life, April 1)....
...Asking prices rose to a near-record level in April, driven by larger properties, according to data that points to a continuing recovery in the UK housing market despite recent volatility in mortgage rates...
...The flash composite purchasing managers’ index for the eurozone, tracked by economists as an early gauge of economic fortunes, rose to an 11-month high of 51.4 in April, up from 50.3 a month earlier....
...The deadline has been extended from April 4 to April 23....
...In Sir John Rose’s letter “Net zero’s leading edge isn’t a comfortable place to be” (April 8), in which he comments on Pilita Clark’s Business Life column about Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s decision to scale...
...Some beach holiday in April. Doesn’t have to be that warm, really, for me. I’d be happy to jump in. Lilah Raptopoulos Yeah. What about you, Niki?...
...At almost all times during our stay, there was a steady queue of punters outside the hotel, waiting to take the lift up to The Nest, a cosy Instagrammable rooftop bar open to the public between April and...
...Other economic data: New applications for unemployment aid in the US are forecast to have edged up to 215,000 in the week to April 20, compared with 212,000 claims the previous week....
...The electric-car maker has fallen 14 per cent in April....
...Non-oil and gas revenues rose 43 per cent to Rbs5.7tn, while expenditure increased 20 per cent to Rbs9.3tn, resulting in a deficit of about 0.3 per cent of gross domestic product....
...However, it remains well above typical levels of below £1,200 before the energy crisis that began in the winter of 2021 as wholesale prices rose....
...One welcomes the clear-headed practical thinking of Sir John Rose (“Net zero’s leading edge isn’t a comfortable place to be”, Letters, April 8), which puts in context the simplistic sloganising of net zero...
...Department stores’ sales volumes rose 1.7 per cent in April following a fall of 3 per cent in the previous month....
.... ★★★☆☆ To March 23, rosetheatre.org, then to Theatre for a New Audience, New York, April 5-May 4, tfana.org...
...Shares rose nearly 4 per cent to an all-time high in early trading on Wednesday. Novo Nordisk is the second-ever European company to achieve a $500bn market value following LVMH last April....
...If we compare the misery index (the sum of unemployment and inflation) in the US with the consumer confidence data, the former rose rapidly and the latter fell equally rapidly between March and April 2020...
...While there was increased activity in both listings and inquiries, the time taken for sellers to find a buyer is at its slowest since 2015, excluding April and May 2020....
...The capital gains allowance is set to halve to £3,000 from April, while the dividend tax allowance will also halve to £500....
...The LME said on Saturday that it would not permit Russian metal produced after April 13 to be stored in its warehouses....
...The data is expected to show that headline inflation rose slightly to 2.6 per cent in March, year on year, from a rate of 2.5 per cent in February....
...The episode prompted Dame Alison Rose, chief executive of Coutts’ owner NatWest, to resign and put a political and regulatory spotlight on the issue....
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