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BUSINESS LIVE: Nationwide profits jump 13%; UK retail sales fall

BUSINESS LIVE: Nationwide profits jump 13% on rate hikes; UK retail sales fall; Tesco to offer advances on pay By Live Commentary Published: 08:08 GMT, 18 Novem... read more

The best areas to find an electric car charging point

REVEALED: The local authorities adding the most electric car charging points since 2019 – and those that have overseen a decline in availability Welwyn Ha... read more

My house isn’t selling: Should I reduce the asking price?

I’m selling my two-bedroom flat as I can now afford to trade up to a house. I have seen some properties I like, but am wary of making an offer as I am str... read more

Is the 60/40 portfolio still effective for the average investor?

It has been a year to forget for the average investor, with the value of stocks and bonds in freefall for most of 2022.  Over £1.3trillion has been wiped off ... read more

ALEX BRUMMER: Jeremy Hunt’s Budget is as far from Liz Truss’s tax-cut agenda as it’s possible to go 

Jeremy Hunt has long threatened stern measures to beat inflation and promote stability – and today he was true to his word.  In sombre tones, the Chancellor ... read more

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: A Budget to break the back of Middle Britain

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: A Budget to break the back of Middle Britain By Daily Mail Comment Published: 23:27 BST, 17 November 2022 | Updated: 23:36 BST, 17 November ... read more

Government’s borrowing binge forces Hunt to rewrite the rules

Rules are made to be broken – certainly for the occupants of 11 Downing Street. Even Jeremy Hunt, hired as Chancellor to restore a sense of order to the publi... read more

UK national debt interest payments set to total £120.4bn this year

Eye-watering cost of servicing national debt: Interest payments set to total £120.4bn this year By Hugo Duncan for the Daily Mail Published: 22:36 GMT, 17 Nove... read more

Cost of bailing out collapsed energy supplier Bulb soars to £6.5bn

Cost of bailing out collapsed energy supplier Bulb soars to £6.5bn – THREE times earlier forecast of £2.2bn By Luke Barr For The Daily Mail Published: 2... read more

Consumer confidence edges slightly higher but remains close to rock bottom

Consumer confidence edges slightly higher this month but remains close to rock bottom By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:34 GMT, 17 Novembe... read more

Newport Wafer Fab faces float calls after UK blocks Chinese takeover 

Welsh chip maker Newport Wafer Fab faces calls to float on the London stock market after UK blocks Chinese takeover By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Pu... read more

Shoppers flock to Lidl as eyes battle with Morrisons

Shoppers flock to Lidl as it looks to overtake Morrisons to become the UK’s fifth biggest grocer By Archie Mitchell For The Daily Mail Published: 22:25 GMT, 1... read more

Burberry goes back to basics as it bids to reach £5bn in annual sales

Burberry goes back to basics as it sets out plans to reach £5bn in annual sales by focusing on its British heritage By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter P... read more

Royal Mail mulls hiving off international arm as strikes take toll

Royal Mail hints it is to hive off its profit-making international arm after strikes take their toll By John-Paul Ford Rojas For The Daily Mail Published: 22:21... read more

MARKET REPORT: Power firms shrug off fresh windfall tax raid

Shares in power companies were among the biggest risers on the stock market despite being hit with a windfall tax. In a bid to shore up Britain’s finances, Ch... read more

Insurance big bang to fire up UK investment

Insurance big bang to fire up UK investment: Chancellor moves to free sector from its EU shackles By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 22:04 GMT, 17 Nove... read more

The drive for safety: Do 20mph speed limits really prevent accidents?

Sticking resolutely to the posted 20mph speed limit, as a motorist I have rarely felt so vulnerable. Directed by sat-nav off the A3 arterial road into the capit... read more

ALEX BRUMMER: Britain’s debt interest bill is robbing taxpayers

Before the financial crisis crashed the public finances and the economy in 2008-09, Labour Chancellor Gordon Brown liked to point out that his management of the... read more

Business reeling from £32bn tax bombshell as Hunt battles to balance the books

Business reeling from £32bn tax bombshell: Hunt battles to balance the books but critics say firms will be taxed ‘into the ground’ By Mark Shapland... read more

AUTUMN BUDGET 2022 RECAP: Jeremy Hunt defends brutal Autumn Statement

AUTUMN BUDGET 2022 RECAP: How Jeremy Hunt defended his brutal Autumn Statement by claiming £25billion in tax rises shows he is facing up to difficult decisions... read more

Four ways the Autumn Statement affects motorists and electric cars

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s most controversial Autumn Statement announcement for motorists was the ending of VED exemption for electric cars, with owners for... read more

Will the Autumn Statement help small businesses through recession?

Jeremy Hunt today announced a huge support package for small businesses worth almost £14billion in a bid to protect them from inflation. Spiralling costs coupl... read more

Delay to £86k care spending cap is a ‘betrayal’ of older people, say critics

Delay to £86k care spending cap is a ‘betrayal’ of older people, who may now pay tens of thousands extra before 2025 launch date, say critics By Ta... read more

Hunt leaves Britain’s biggest businesses nursing major tax hikes

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement was an attempt to repair public finances while trying to get the UK economy growing again. Thursday’s Autu... read more