Pessimism over the upcoming Budget is already influencing SME decision-making, with many businesses taking pre-emptive action according to Rathbones, one of the UK’s leading wealth and asset management groups.

Family firms across the UK are having to deal with the political and economic uncertainty that is prevailing over British businesses today.

Confidence and growth hopes among the UK’s small business community has nosedived.

Latest data shows a sharp 6.3% drop in UK business R&D investment since 2021.

Seventy per cent (70%) of respondents said they feel less optimistic about their business prospects compared to last year

Mid-market companies remained the growth engine of the UK private sector economy in September.

Britain’s high streets face a critical moment, the Co-op has warned, as new research reveals 60,000 small shops and 150,000 jobs could...

Deloitte’s latest survey of UK Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) – which took place between 17th and 30th September – shows that CFO...

After four months of elevated confidence, September saw a return to levels seen in the first part of the year. The latest Lloyds Business...

Britain’s manufacturers have seen a sharp rebound in activity in the third quarter of the year, with signs that pent up investment demand...

Responding to the announcement that Gross Domestic Product (GDP) showed flat growth in July, and rose by 0.3% in the three months to...

UK Finance’s latest Business Finance Review shows that SME lending by the main high street banks increased by 8 per cent in the second...

New research from the Barclays Business Prosperity Index reveals that while two in five (43 per cent) UK businesses surveyed are...

Recruiters expect vacancy levels to rise in the months ahead but warn that access to talent remains the biggest challenge, according to...

Global professional job vacancies saw a +9.2% month-on-month increase in July compared to June. The increases were broad-based across the...

The hospitality industry has lost a further 5,000 jobs in the last month, bringing the total to 89,000 jobs lost since the last UK...

Manufacturing output volumes fell at a sharp pace in the quarter to August, after being broadly flat in July, according to the CBI’s...

The British manufacturing sector is in the grip of a prolonged crisis, impacted by surging energy prices and global uncertainty,...

KPMG International is forecasting global GDP growth to slow to rates not seen since the global financial crisis of 2008/9 as geopolitical...