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Reading Time | < 1 min 16 Apr 2012

High Street losing shops

Reading Time • < 1 minMore than one out of ten High Street shops are vacant, a new survey has shown.
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Reading Time | 2 mins 16 Apr 2012

UK exporters failing to reach emerging markets

Reading Time • 2 minsNew figures have suggested that efforts to rebalance the economy through an improved export drive could be meeting with deep-seated obstacles.
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Reading Time | < 1 min 16 Apr 2012

Taxes help boost public finances

Reading Time • < 1 minThe public purse headed into the black last month despite the poor performance of the economy.
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Reading Time | 2 mins 16 Apr 2012

Business Growth Fund may help more firms

Reading Time • 2 minsThere is the possibility that the Government's Business Growth Fund, aimed at supporting fast-growing companies that would otherwise struggle to find funding, may be extended to more firms than were included in the original remit.
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Reading Time | 2 mins 16 Apr 2012

Retail sales under pressure

Reading Time • 2 minsOfficial figures have shown that retail sales grew by a worryingly moderate amount last month.
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Reading Time | < 1 min 16 Apr 2012

Jobs to become scarcer

Reading Time • < 1 minNews that unemployment levels have risen to 2.494 million in the second quarter of the year indicates that the private sector is struggling, at the moment, to take up the slack caused by lay offs in the public sector.
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Reading Time | 2 mins 16 Apr 2012

Extending work trial scheme would create new jobs

Reading Time • 2 minsA leading business group has urged the Government to extend a scheme that allows employers and employees to try a role before offering or accepting a permanent position.
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Reading Time | < 1 min 16 Apr 2012

Savers still battling effects of inflation

Reading Time • < 1 minThe rising cost of living means that most savers are finding it a struggle to outpace the effects of inflation.
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Reading Time | < 1 min 16 Apr 2012

More small firms depend on personal finances

Reading Time • < 1 minA significant proportion of the UK's small firms may be relying on the personal finances of their owners in order to continue trading.
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