A new survey of the top finance bosses at many of the UK's biggest companies (including those on the FTSE 100 and 250 stock market lists) has found that their overall confidence in the economy has dropped dramatically. In the second half of March 2026, their "net confidence" score fell to a very negative -57%. This is much worse than the -13% seen at the end of 2025 and is the lowest level recorded since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The main reason for thi

A recent survey from the Bank of England asked more than 2,000 British companies what they plan to do with their prices over the next 12 months, and the answers show growing pressure from the war in the Middle East. Businesses now expect to increase the prices they charge customers by an average of 3.7% in the coming year. That's the fastest expected rise in nearly two years and a noticeable jump from what they said just a month earlier, before the Iran conflict escalated. Th

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FILE PHOTO: Anti-immigration activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, known as "Tommy Robinson", arrives at the "Putting Christ Back into Christmas" gathering, organised by him and his Unite the Kingdom movement, near Downing Street, in London, Britain December 13, 2025. REUTERS/Chris J. Ratcliffe/ File Photo WASHINGTON, Feb 25 (Reuters) - British anti-Islam activist ⁠Tommy Robinson visited the U.S. State Department on Wednesday and met with at least one U.S. official, social media ⁠p