All news on the topic: Recession

As Donald Trump and Joe Biden prepare to face off in their first debate of the 2024 campaign, it's worth examining the facts behind their claims

Ex-Post Office boss Alan Cook said his 'instincts' told him cash-strapped subpostmasters were stealing from tills as they were struggling due to the recession in an email in 2009

It means the country continued to recover from the recession which plagued it at the tail end of last year

The JPS and Gauloises cigarette maker said it is 'on track' to meet half-year and full-year financial targets as a result of the price hikes

The economy still shrunk for two quarters in a row, the definition of a recession, but the total contraction over that six-month period dropped from 0.5% to 0.4%

Job growth in February was higher than January's revised gain of 229,000 job, but the unemployment rate rose slightly to 3.9%

International Airlines Group is expected to report sales totalling just short of 30 billion euros (£25 billion), a record yearly amount for the group

This surge happened a day after it was announced that Britain's economy had fallen into a recession

EY said it is still trying to get money from Recharge Industries, a year after it agreed to buy the site

The UK economy fell into recession at the end of 2023, new figures released this month show, but how does it compare to the Great Recession that devastated the nation in 2008?

Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey has said that inflation does not need to reach 2% before the Bank starts cutting interest rates

The Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves could be overheard asking "where is he?" as the more junior Treasury minister Bim Afolami was sent to field questions in his boss's absence

'How much you stress and worry about your finances is actually more important than how much you are financially struggling ...' Here, we ask clinical psychologist Dr Thomas Richardson - an expert on the relationship between financial difficulties and mental health problems - how best to cope in the cost of living crisis

Spending wisely saves lives, says Fleet Street Fox. Wasting billions on PPE deals with your mates does not.

For the Tories to claim this is a 'mild' recession is an insult to people trying to balance their budgets and to small business owners trying to keep their heads above water

There are concerns there will be yet more savage cuts to decimated public services - the Office for National Statistics, on Thursday, said the economy shrank by a worse-than-feared 0.3% in the final three months of last year

Trouble dipperWITH wearying predictability, news of Britain slipping into a technical recession was met with glee by the BBC and their Remainer chums.

Justice Secretary Alex Chalk's campaign team delivered election leaflets in Cheltenham claiming there's 'good news' for the economy as Britain slipped into recession

The Japanese government reported that the economy shrank at an annual rate of 0.4% from October to December

Critics have lashed out over the 'Rishi recession' announced this morning - just hours after a mega-poll showed the Tories could be left with just 80 MPs after the election

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) today revealed GDP shrank by 0.3% between October and December 2023 - meaning the UK fell into recession at the end of last year

Andrew Bailey said the banking system had proved to be more resilient than in the past, but said there was a 'puzzle' over the share prices of major lenders

Rishi Sunak claimed the economy has 'turned a corner' as he faces a tricky week which could see official figures confirm the UK went into recession at the end of last year

Representatives from TUI, Jet2, and Ryanair have urged hotel and holiday let owners on Canary Islands including Tenerife and Lanzarote to keep their prices low

The EY Item Club has upgraded its outlook for UK growth in 2024, to 0.9% from the 0.7% it previously pencilled in last October