Advertisement
UK markets open in 53 minutes

  • NIKKEI 225

    37,685.94
    -774.14 (-2.01%)
     

  • HANG SENG

    17,235.13
    +33.86 (+0.20%)
     

  • CRUDE OIL

    82.92
    +0.11 (+0.13%)
     

  • GOLD FUTURES

    2,331.70
    -6.70 (-0.29%)
     

  • DOW

    38,460.92
    -42.77 (-0.11%)
     

  • Bitcoin GBP

    51,488.51
    -1,954.12 (-3.66%)
     

  • CMC Crypto 200

    1,391.10
    +8.53 (+0.62%)
     

  • NASDAQ Composite

    15,712.75
    +16.11 (+0.10%)
     

  • UK FTSE All Share

    4,374.06
    -4.69 (-0.11%)
     
Money:

The five essential pieces of financial paperwork you must never lose

Mislaying key documents can cause real headaches, so it’s worth tracking down these most commonly-lost bits of paperwork

UK budget office backs state as insurer for coronavirus losses

Reuters - UK Focus
·1-min read

LONDON, March 17 (Reuters) - Britain's independent budget office said there was a "very good argument" for the government to act as insurer against coronavirus losses for businesses, ahead of an expected announcement of more help for companies by finance minister Rishi Sunak on Tuesday.

"There is, I think, a very good argument that the state should be the essentially the insurer here," Charlie Bean, a member of the Office for Budget Responsibility, told lawmakers.

He also said any attempt to forecast what would happen to the economy in the next year or two was "pie in the sky." (Reporting by David Milliken Writing by William Schomberg, editing by Guy Faulconbridge)