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UK At ‘Serious Risk’ Of Recession
Sky News
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
The UK is “at serious risk” of recession with the future looking “grim”, Britain’s business bosses have warned.Falling orders and rising costs are tightening the squeeze on business, the British Chambers of Commerce has warned.
Services firms, which account for three-quarters of the economy, saw “alarming” declines in the second quarter of 2008, with those reporting lower orders outnumbering those recording rises for the first time since 1990.
The BCC quizzed almost 5,000 firms as part of its survey.
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It found that business confidence was at its lowest since 1990.
The BCC’s economic adviser David Kern said the survey showed a “menacing deterioration” in UK prospects.
Firms were equally gloomy about the prospects for the future.
The BCC warned the Government against hitting firms with more taxes in an effort to boost public revenues.
Director-general David Frost said: “The temptation for the Government will be to raise business taxes because the exchequer is running out of money.
“This would be a catastrophe.
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July 9th, 2008 at 3:57 am
Well they did buy all those sub-prime credit default swaps in the past few years. If Northen Rock is now nationalised and with larger bank in the US and Australia now buying up smaller banks for their client base alone it is going to get real messy in the UK.