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Brickmaker cuts guidance as Budget uncertainty hits construction

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Brickmaker Michelmersh cut earnings guidance after pre-Budget market uncertainty helped drive a sharp slowdown in construction in the final months of 2025.

Rachel Reeves accused of trying to 'manipulate' the bond markets after wild swings ahead of Budget

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Rachel Reeves has been accused of trying to 'manipulate' the bond markets in the build up to the Budget.

I'm 64 and will get a £98,000 inheritance tax bill for being single, but a married couple could pay nothing

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My flat is worth £500,000 and I have savings of around £70,000. As it stands I would face a big inheritance tax bill, but a married couple in my position would not.

Monzo will double the salary of 10 customers a month with new double payday draw

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Monzo, the digital bank with 14m customers, has announced it is launching a double payday feature, where it will pay the equivalent of your net salary into your account.

Best fixed energy deals: Tariffs that beat the price cap

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Fixed energy deals have been gradually returning to the market, so are there any that beat the current cap?

Millions of Britons say they want to invest, but don't have the confidence

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Investment giant Blackrock says millions of British savers who have the money to invest are being stifled by a 'knowledge gap'.

Economy to slow next year as Reeves tax hikes batter Britain, warns OECD

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The Paris-based body forecast that growth of 1.4 per cent this year would fall to an even more sluggish 1.2 per cent in 2026.

Investors can get up to £2,000 cashback to transfer to Freetrade - is it a deal worth taking?

Today

The investment platform Freetrade is running cashback deals for both Isa and Sipp accounts, we run the rule over them.

Here's proof Reeves DID mislead the markets - and it's ordinary savers who paid the price: ALEX BRUMMER

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The Chancellor and her advisers had been on a mission to convince us that a giant black hole had opened in the public finances.

Council crackdown on drivers abusing EV charging bays: Over 160,000 fines dished out in the last five years

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EV ownership is rising, but so too are the number of fines drivers are receiving for wrongly parking in an EV bay or overstaying their welcome. Here are six tips to avoid a £70 PCN.

Made in Chelsea star Jamie Laing's Candy Kittens firm buys Graze

Today

Graze has been snapped up by Candy Kittens, which was founded by Jamie Laing (pictured with wife Sophie Habboo), an heir to the McVitie's biscuit fortune.

Cash Isas surge in October as savers rush to stick in £4.2bn amid allowance cut speculation

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Savers rushed to get money into cash Isas ahead of speculation that the cash Isa allowance would be cut.

House prices rise in November despite Budget uncertainty, says Nationwide

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It follows on from last week's Budget in which Rachel Reeves announced tax hikes on landlords and owners of expensive homes.

Boost for banks as BoE eases financial crisis era lending restraints

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Britain's banks have been given a boost after he Bank of England eased post financial crisis restraints - giving them 'greater confidence and certainty' to lend to firms and households.

Reeves blamed as private sector shrinks at fastest pace since pandemic amid pre-Budget 'limbo'

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Rachel Reeves has been blamed for leaving firms in 'limbo' amid intense pre-Budget speculation as private sector activity slumped at the fastest pace since the pandemic.

BAE to hire 2,000 apprentices and graduates in much-needed boost for the youth jobs market

Today

The intake adds to the 10,000 young people that BAE has hired over the past five years as demand ramps up amid growing global tensions.

'Labour has hurt us more than Covid': Hospitality firms reveal how Reeves's Budget will leave them struggling to survive

Today

Already struggling under the weight of increased national insurance and minimum wage costs, the hospitality sector was praying for help from the recent Budget.

US lifeline for UK pharma - Let's just hope Labour hasn't done too much damage, says ALEX BRUMMER

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Britain's attitude towards its medicines industry has long been strangely cool. The NHS has preferred cut price generic drugs to pioneering treatments.

Britain's debt interest bill to hit £750bn over next six years after Government's borrowing binge

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The 'shocking' scale of the debt interest bill amounts to almost four years of spending on the NHS and social care, official figures show.

'Misleading' Reeves under fire over business rates: Chancellor faces backlash from hospitality

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The Chancellor (pictured) had announced 'permanently lower tax rates for over 750,000 retail, hospitality and leisure properties'.

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