In this mornings news, find out what is behind a sharp slowdown in shop openings in the second quarter as revealed by Local Data Company research.
Ahead of the Bank of England’s interest rate meeting today, the influence of low unemployment, climbing inflation and Brexit uncertainty is put under the microscope.
And on the ten-year anniversary of the run on Northern Rock, the Financial Times analyses the risky banking practices that have disappeared, and others that have re-emerged in different guises.
Sharp slowdown in shop openings in Q2 2017
BoE dilemma as UK jobless rate falls to lowest level in 42 years
Ten years after Northern Rock: has UK banking changed?
‘The party’s over for small-time landlords’
Galliford Try profits hit by legacy contracts
