April 19, 2025
Financial Assets

UK stock market plunges amid Trump tariff chaos with emergency meetings underway – latest updates

By JAMIE BULLEN and LETTICE BROMOVSKY Updated: 10:35, 3 April 2025 UK stocks plunged immediately after markets opened this morning as chaos caused by Donald Trump’s tariffs take effect. London’s FTSE 100 Index dropped sharply on opening, falling 122.4 points or 1.4% to 8486.09 after President Trump unveiled sweeping new taxes on US imports. World

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Tangible Assets

Keir Starmer tells councils to fix potholes or face losing road cash

Keir Starmer said: ‘British people are bored of seeing their politicians aimlessly pointing at potholes with no real plan to fix them. That ends with us’ Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander says: ‘After years of neglect we’re tackling the pothole plague’(Image: Getty Images) Keir Starmer has warned councils they must show progress on fixing potholes –

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British Markets Rebound as Investor Sentiment Shifts on Global Developments

British shares recovered from a recent slump on Wednesday as positive news from the Ukraine-Russia conflict and corporation earnings reports boosted investor confidence. The FTSE 100 closed with a 0.5% gain, halting a six-day losing streak. Developments included the U.S. resuming military aid to Ukraine following a proposal for a 30-day ceasefire. Most London

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Fixed Assets

The Dodds one out: Public think UK spends too MUCH on foreign aid after cash went to prawn farms in Bangladesh and ‘inclusion’ in the Congo as minister quits

Annaliese Dodds quit the Government today with a broadside at Sir Keir Starmer over his plan to use foreign aid money to re-arm Britain. Earlier this week, the Prime Minister announced that defence spending will be increasing to 2.5 per cent of GDP by 2027, with a view to it hitting 3 per cent in

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Tangible Assets

Labour urged to target pensioners 25% tax-free cash in new stealth raid | Personal Finance | Finance

I’m losing track of all the taxes that PM Keir Starmer and chancellor Rachel Reeves are aiming at the older generation. Now it looks like I need to add another one to the list. Ten million pensioners will lose up to £300 towards their winter fuel bills this year, even as energy prices rebound. If

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Financial Assets

JAMES CLEVERLY: We can’t afford to spend more money on defence? We can’t afford NOT to!

By James Cleverly Published: 22:01, 26 August 2024 | Updated: 22:43, 26 August 2024 The warning lights were flashing red well before Vladimir Putin‘s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. And there are few reasons to believe the world is going to become more stable or more safe any time soon. Authoritarian regimes are not

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