2:00pm

Lending drops despite BoE scheme

Credit fell £2.4bn in final three months of 2012

11:56am

Construction index hits three-year low

Sharp drops in commercial building and civil engineering activity

11:59pm

Jobs growth continues amid pay squeeze

City of London misses out as employment boom continues elsewhere

From WORLD 12:04am

Osborne urged to curb business rates

Small companies seek rate cap and wider competition in banking sector

Women board members ©Dreamstime From COMPANIES 8:30pm

Females add diversity to boards

Study dispels talent pool concerns

House builder ©Bloomberg From COMPANIES 7:40pm

Housebuilding incentive branded a flop

£3.3bn scheme to reward councils is not working, says former minister

Wolfgang Munchau from COMMENT Mar 3, 2013

Bonus issue marks start of a long battle

It is in the eurozone’s collective interest to stop London from acting as its main financial centre

Mar 3, 2013

Policy makers eye radical options for UK

Governor-designate spurs fresh thinking at central bank

From WORLD Mar 3, 2013

London mayor calls bonus cap ‘moronic’

Johnson says regular EU attacks on City motivated by envy

From WORLD Mar 1, 2013

Call for more primary school places

UK needs more than 100,000 places to cope with high birth rate and immigration

From WORLD Mar 1, 2013

Tory right wing puts Cameron on probation

Tories in third place with 25% of the vote in Eastleigh by-election

From LIFE & ARTS Mar 1, 2013

Skegness braced for beach sports arena

East Lincolnshire town seen as possible venue for national beach sports arena

Mar 1, 2013

UK manufacturing falls sharply

February PMI data show biggest contraction since October

Martin Wolf from COMMENT Mar 1, 2013

The case of Brussels and banker bonuses

Europe has found a way to attack the UK that is sure to be favoured by much of the British public

From COMPANIES Mar 1, 2013

Crossrail private finance plan scrapped

A £1bn scheme to buy new trains for the Crossrail project has been dropped

FT Data from COMPANIES Mar 1, 2013

Perfect day to knock off early?

Financial workers most likely to be working unpaid overtime

From WORLD Feb 28, 2013

Osborne fights to limit bonus cap fallout

UK seeks concessions and to ‘save face’ over EU bank deal

From WORLD Feb 28, 2013

EU agrees to cap bankers’ bonuses

Payouts to be limited to twice their salary

Feb 27, 2013

ONS in minority on body in Treasury data dispute

Committee dominated by government officials

Feb 27, 2013

Economy fails to ‘rebalance’

Exports and business investment fell in final quarter of 2012

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