Financial experts, business leaders and media pundits give their view on what chancellor George Osborne should do.
Rolling coverage of Chancellor George Osborne's budget statement to the House of Commons for 2012.
A lower tax top rate, higher threshold and rise in stamp duty heavily flagged ahead of 2012/13 Budget.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch Global Research survey of investors shows increasing confidence in Europe and growing fears over emerging markets.
Office for Budget Responsibility improves outlook for UK economic growth but critics say it is too optimistic in face of increasing global competition.
Property ladder increasingly difficult to get on to as would-be first-time buyers hit by double whammy on expenditure.
Thinktank warns chancellor of last opportunity to get Britain growing ahead of next general election.
Coalition leaders thrash out last-minute deals over Chancellor George Osborne's 21 March budget, including scrapping top tax rate.
Berkeley Group, the residential-led property developer is well placed to double its profits before tax around £220 million by 30 April 2013, two years earlier than originally planned and to enhance the value of its land bank to £3 billion by April 2015.
The Cupertino-based company has called for a media event, scheduled for 9 a.m. EDT (2 p.m. GMT; 6 a.m. PDT) on 19 March, to explain its plans to spend the surplus money.
India's annual budget proposed a 17 percent hike in its defense expenditure.
Britain's slow and steady economic growth helps it in avoiding recession, followed by upbeat data and last week's Greek debt restructuring. The Bank of England holds its asset purchase programme at £325 billion, as economists predicted 0.2 per cent growth in the current quarter.
The Berkeley Group Holdings, known for its savvy London land purchases, is confident of its ability to meet its targets, buoyed by a pipeline of forward sales that grew 15.2 percent in the six months to October 31, 2011. The group is scheduled to release its interim management statement on March 19, 2012.
Trinity Mirror warns of cuts to pension funding obligation to ease pain of profits fall to £74m.
Richard Brasher reportedly wants to take responsibility for poor sales leading to weaker revenues for the retail giant.
Supermarket giant changes staff retirement rules to plug £275m hole in pension scheme funds.
Jobless numbers increase by 28,000 to 17-year high of 2.67 million.
Government to guarantee 95% of mortage to give people leg up property ladder.
British industrial output posted an unexpected fall in January after a sharp decline in oil and gas production and weaker-than-expected factory output, indicating that Britain's economic recovery could be in peril.
Taylor Wimpey, the homebuilding company, says that it is too early to judge the market for the year as a whole, but the early weeks of trading in 2012 have followed the encouraging patterns of the second half of 2011, with good visitor levels, healthy reservations and low cancellations.
The increase in cost is mainly on account of the need for doubling the number of security men for the Games.
The Scotland government has said the country will become the first to source 100 per cent energy from renewable sources by 2020.
Bank industry initiatives successfully locking out fraudsters from customer accounts.
Andrew Gowers appointed as head of lobby group for bankers in Europe
The new employees will work on fresh produce, meat and bakery counters in stores.
The Australian services sector saw a deep slide in February, with the Performance of Services Index (PSI) retreating by 5.2 points to 46.7 in the month, clearly indicating an alarming contraction level that was last seen more than two years ago.
Lloyd's Banking Group (LBG) and the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), UK's leading part-nationalised banks, are reportedly planning to approach the European Central Bank (ECB) for a special three-year funding scheme.
The profit was driven by considerable increases in e-book sales at Penguin and the Financial Times Group, both of which are owned by Pearson.
The builder of traditional homes reported that its annual pre-tax profits rose 74% for the financial year ended 31 December 2011, as it sold more homes at a wider margins and focuses on increasing profits combined with further improvements in the use of capital. The Group also expects to deliver a strongly increasing return on capital employed in 2012 and beyond.
According to a press release by the Press Association (PA), ongoing research into the "energy bill revolution" has revealed that a staggering 6.4 million homes are facing fuel poverty in the UK.
