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The rise in house prices in the UK accelerated to 11.1 per cent in May from 10.9 per cent in April, according to a leading building society, although the lender also said that there are signs that activity in the housing market is starting “to moderate”.
A recent survey by the British Retail Consortium (BRC) has found that shoppers are less likely to use cash to pay for their goods than ever before, with people more likely to pay with debit or contactless cards or to shop online.
Business Secretary Vince Cable has announced plans to force firms to publish information about their payment terms in a bid to shame big businesses into paying suppliers on time.
The Government’s Help to Buy mortgage guarantee scheme has supported 7,313 home loans worth a total of £1bn, according to official figures published by the Treasury today (May 29).
Today (May 28) is Tax Freedom Day, the first day of the year when the average taxpayer in the UK stops paying for the state and starts working for themselves, and this year its falls two days earlier than it did in 2013.
Firms in the service sector, which accounts for around three-quarters of gross domestic product (GDP), are hiring more staff and feeling at their most optimistic since records began in 1998, according to business group the Confederation of British Industry (CBI).
It has been announced that the Clydesdale Bank will become the first to issue plastic banknotes in the UK when it prints a limited edition of two million £5 notes next year, before the Bank of England puts plastic notes into general circulation in 2016.
Retail sales in the UK jumped 6.9 per cent in April year-on-year, making it the strongest annual rise in 10 years, according to figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) yesterday (May 21).
Business in the UK is booming, if new company formations are anything to go by, with the number of incorporations rising to 526,874 in the 12 months to March, an increase of 10 per cent on the previous year and the highest figure since current Companies House records began in 1997.
House prices in the UK rose by 8 per cent in the year to March, according to official data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), although the annual increase slowed compared with a 9.2 per cent year-on-year rise to the end of February.