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Day: 9 July 2015

Summer Budget: Reflection

A bold, brave statement on the right path

Susie Walker
As the dust settles and the political debating begins, who won out of yesterday’s first, not particularly conservative, Conservative budget for almost 20 years? George Osborne surprised most of usRead More

China bounce helps lift FTSE100

Thur close: A bounce in Chinese stock markets brought some relief elsewhere although Greece continued to weigh ahead of further proposals to resolve the debt crisis due at midnight. TheRead More

The UK government has delayed its plans to give English MPs control over English laws until after the summer recess

Ewing says decisision is 'anti-business'

Renewables leaders urge Rudd ‘not to abandon’ wind sector

Green energy leaders today appealed to the UK government not to abandon the onshore wind industry. Trade body Scottish Renewables joined forces with Scottish energy minister Fergus Ewing to condemn UKRead More

Newspaper sales

National titles suffer sharp falls in Scots sales

Circulations of national newspapers in Scotland continued to decline in the last six months, despite interest generated by the independence referendum and General Election campaign. Newspaper Scottish circulation, September 2014Read More

Group CEO says progress being made

Balfour issues fresh profits warning over legacy issues

Balfour Beatty has been forced to issue a further profits warning after the infrastructure group identified unspecified “legacy” issues in its operations around the world. In an update ahead ofRead More

Builder reports strong demand

Low lending rates provides profits boost for Barratt

housebuilding
Barratt Developments says it is benefiting from the scramble for mortgage business among lenders offering rock bottom rates. As a result it expects annual profits to rise by 45% afterRead More

Primark says sales were 13% ahead of last year for the first 40 weeks of the year

Summer Budget: business managers

Taxing changes for business managers

Susannah Simpson
The Budget produced more than a few surprises that will have businesses and entrepreneurs frantically checking how they are likely to be impacted. Private business owners regularly extract cash from theirRead More

Summer Budget: Comment

One Nation George shows us a few handy tricks

Terry
Those cheeky Chancellors – always saving the best till last. After spending an hour confirming a number of heavily-leaked plans on tax and spending cuts, George Osborne maintained the traditionRead More