Manufacturers expect a sharp fall in their output over the next three months in the weakest forecasts for growth since the depths of the pandemic. They reported a slight drop in output in the three months to September but expect ...
HMRC has granted importers a one-month stay of execution from adopting a new computer system for customs declarations over concerns that too many businesses are unprepared. The existing 30-year-old regime, called Customs Handling of Import and Export Freight, or CHIEF, ...
A six-month energy support scheme for businesses was welcomed yesterday by leading industry groups as vital to help keep companies afloat this winter, but quickly prompted warnings that support would need to be extended. After growing calls for emergency aid ...
Businesses are failing to recognise the importance social media is playing in the purchasing decisions of consumers. That is the findings of new research commissioned by social media tech specialists Maybe* as part of projects with UK Government and local ...
The pound has hit a new 37-year low against the dollar after Russia accused the West of “nuclear blackmail” raising fears the Ukraine war could escalate. The comments unnerved traders, pushing them towards safer investments such as the dollar. The ...
Britain’s SMEs are owed on average £147,141 in late payments – nearly £74,000 more than in 2019. That’s according to the report ‘UK SMEs: Navigating Uncertainty’, from Dun & Bradstreet, the leading global provider of business decisioning data and analytics. ...
UNITED NATIONS/SEOUL — South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida held their first one-on-one talks on Wednesday and agreed on the need to improve relations dogged by historical disputes. The meeting took place in New York ...
NEW YORK/KYIV — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy demanded a special United Nations (UN) tribunal impose “just punishment” on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, including financial penalties and stripping Moscow of its veto power in the Security Council. Mr. Zelenskyy’s recorded ...
Cuts to stamp duty will hurt first-time buyers and stoke an inflationary bubble in the property market as house prices rise at the fastest rate for almost 20 years, the government has been warned. In the latest report detailing the ...
UNITED NATIONS/NEW YORK — The Global Fund to fight AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome), tuberculosis and malaria on Wednesday reached $14.25 billion pledged as world leaders seek to fight the killer diseases after progress was knocked off course by the coronavirus ...