ECONOMY

UK businesses are more confident than their European peers and are investing at a faster pace than prior to the pandemic despite a small contraction in second quarter growth. As the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported a…

In this series, we bust the jargon and explain a popular investing term or theme. Here it's yield curve inversion. Bit of a mouthful Indeed. It's a bit complex, but bear with me, as this is a widely followed and important…

Conservative party leadership frontrunner Liz Truss has cheered up the UK's small band of frackers. At a party hustings event in Cheltenham, Truss said she believed it should be allowed, after the Government banned fracking in 2019…

Emma Walmsley will have had better weeks. Having successfully re-engineered GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and steered its consumer health care arm Haleon to the London market, the company itself – along with other big pharma groups – is in the…

Touch of class: Turkish butcher Nusret Gokçe shot to fame in 2017 for the flamboyant manner in which he salted steakAn ultra-pricey steak restaurant opened by social media sensation 'Salt Bae' raked in £7million in its first four…

This summer, it's not just sales of rosé wine and ice cream that have rocketed during the heatwave. Interest in swimming pools has also surged.'This sweltering summer has undoubtedly inspired people to install swimming pools,' says Sallie…

Your front door isn't there to keep people out, it's there to welcome them in.Along with the windows — those peep-holes into your life — the style and colour tell friends and strangers alike who you are and what they can expect when they…

As the cost of living crisis goes from bad to worse, new research has revealed that Britons may have as much as £50billion sitting in inactive or dormant accounts.There are roughly 20million people with unclaimed money festering in…

London-listed TBC Bank has announced a share buyback programme as it posted another robust set of quarterly results.The Georgian bank said it had approved the purchase of up to 75 million Georgian lari (£22.8million) of its own stock, with…

The FTSE 100 has closed up 0.5 per cent to 7500.9, while the FTSE 250 has ended the day up 0.5 per cent to 20338.96. Among UK companies with reports and updates are GSK, Haleon, 888 and Flutter Entertainment. Read the Friday 12 August…