Britains jobless rate rose to 5.1 in the last three months of 2020, its highest in nearly five years but still lower than it would have been without a huge coronavirus jobs support scheme that finance minister Rishi Sunak looks set to extend next week. Separate data from the Office for National Statistics showed that […]

Feb 22 Reuters Goldman Sachs Commodities Research raised by 10 its Brent crude oil price forecasts for the second and third quarters of 2021, citing lower expected inventories, higher marginal costs to restart upstream activity and speculative inflows. The Wall Street bank expects Brent prices to reach 70 per barrel in the second quarter from […]

British retail sales tumbled in January as nonessential shops went back into lockdown, official data showed, but lowerthanexpected public borrowing offered at least some relief to finance minister Rishi Sunak as he prepares a budget plan. Retail sales volumes slumped by 8.2 compared with December, a far bigger fall than the 2.5 decrease forecast in […]