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Average UK house price hits two-year high amid ‘positive summer’ for market #UKFinance
CashNews.co The average UK house price hit a two-year high in August, up 0.3% on the previous month, according to new data from Halifax. The building society said the typical property now costs £292,505, according to its model, which uses data from across the UK. August’s small monthly rise comes after a faster 0.9% increase […]
‘Only the Autumn Budget could derail this train’ #UKFinance
CashNews.co House price has risen at their fastest level since November 2022 UK house prices grew at their fastest annual rate since November 2022, although analysts have already started to warn about the effects of a potentially bruising Autumn budget. Prices rose by 4.3 per cent year on year and 0.3 per cent month on […]
FTSE ends week lower and S&P falls as US economy adds fewer jobs than expected #UKFinance
CashNews.co The FTSE 100 ended the week lower, with markets in Europe and the US also down, following economic data releases in the Eurozone and America on Friday that pointed interest to rate cuts. Wall Street traders digested news that the US economy added fewer jobs than expected last month, according to official figures released […]
Mark Cuban Shares He Reached First $1 Million By Learning To ‘Party Like A Rock Star, But Still Live Like A Student’ – Jokes ‘I’m Still A Slob’ #UKFinance
CashNews.co Mark Cuban didn’t stumble into wealth; he fought his way up with sheer determination and scrappiness. For him, it wasn’t about flashy purchases or luxurious living but about being frugal and making smart financial decisions. Cuban credits his early days of living like a broke student as the foundation for his first $1 million. […]
Payments Firms Keep Fighting Fraud Refunds as New UK Rules Loom #UKFinance
CashNews.co (Bloomberg) — The UK payments industry is still fighting for changes to fraud-reimbursement rules with just a month to go before they’re enacted, even after a significant U-turn by regulators this week. Most Read from Bloomberg In an 11th-hour push, the Payments Association wrote to City Minister Tulip Siddiq on Friday, calling for the […]
UK proposes delay to EU fruit and vegetable checks, says industry body #UKFinance
CashNews.co LONDON (Reuters) -Britain is proposing to delay checks on fruit and vegetables imported from the European Union by a further six months to next July, according to an industry body. Eight years after it voted to leave the European Union, Britain is still in the process of bringing in all the physical checks required […]
Berkeley, Toyota, Tesla, Trump Media and Broadcom #UKFinance
CashNews.co Berkeley (BKG.L) Housebuilder Berkeley climbed 2% on Friday morning, after the company said it was on track to meet its earnings target for the year. Berkeley said trading had been “stable” over the first four months of its fiscal year and reiterated that it was course to meet it pre-tax earnings forecast of £525m […]
Italgas plans 1 billion euro capital hike for 2i Rete Gas bid, paper says #UKFinance
CashNews.co ROME (Reuters) -Europe’s biggest gas distributor Italgas is planning to raise around 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) in capital to finance the acquisition of its main domestic rival 2i Rete Gas, newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore reported on Friday. While details of the deal are still in the works, “it is certain that the […]
FTSE 100 slips as energy, miners weigh ahead of key US payrolls data #UKFinance
CashNews.co (Reuters) – UK’s main stock index was lower on Friday, dragged down by energy and mining shares, as investors awaited a U.S. jobs report that could determine the extent of expected interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve. The blue-chip index FTSE 100 fell 0.4% as of 0710 GMT, on track for its sixth […]