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Source: World Bank
Currency: Pound sterlingGDP: 2.855 trillion USD (2018)
GDP per capita: 42,943.90 USD (2018)
GDP growth rate: 1.4% annual change (2018)
GNI per capita: 46,240 PPP dollars (2018)
Gross national income: 3.016 trillion PPP dollars (2018)
Internet users: 94.78% of the population (2016)
GNI per capita: 46,240 PPP dollars (2018)
Gross national income: 3.016 trillion PPP dollars (2018)
Internet users: 94.78% of the population (2016)
Nissan reprieve turns headlights on battery supply chain
Work at Nissan's Sunderland plant is to continue including on the Qashqai SUV odel that was…
Euronext IPO challenges Sunak’s Big Bang 2.0 theory
UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s assertion earlier this week that Brexit could trigger a ‘Big Bang 2.0…
India’s Essar in $1bn UK hydrogen JV
The Essar Group has announced that it is partnering up with clean-energy specialists Progressive Energy to…
UK leads race for hydrogen heating
Behind industry and ground transport, household boilers are the third biggest emitters of greenhouse gases in…
Denmark calls time on North Sea oil and raises the bar for Boris
Denmark called time on its North Sea oil industry yesterday when the Regeringen in Copenhagen ratified…
Diageo raises green bar
Diageo, the London-based drinks multinational and the world’s largest spirit maker, today pledged to use the…
Boris Johnson’s Grand Green Dream
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has unveiled an ambitious green manifesto in a bid to re-energize…
Cheer for UK EV industry as Johnson speeds up petrol ban
In a boost for the UK EV industry, Johnson is to speed up ban of fossil…
UK-Japan trade deal boost for Brexit
UK’s chief Brexit negotiator Lord Frost probably afforded himself a smile this week as news came…
Airbnb hires Apple vet in run-up to IPO
Airbnb has hired iMac, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch designer Sir Jony Ive to help create…
British Steel’s white knight eyes up Port Talbot
Just over six months after taking over British Steel’s Scunthorpe operations, China’s privately owned Jingye Group…
Brexit deadlock scares off JP Morgan
JP Morgan was yesterday said to be in the process of transferring about €200bn from Britain…
FTSE 250 welcomes in green, healthcare and social housing funds
FTSE 250: The growing demand for renewable energy, social housing and, of course, healthcare featured strongly…
Covid-19 shakes up FTSE 100
The first quarterly reshuffle of the FTSE 100 since the Covid-19 pandemic swept across the world…
e-bike sales set to enter ‘warp speed’
Earlier this week, the UK retail supermarket chain Sainsbury’s began rolling out its Chop Chop e-bike…
Lenovo bounce-back sign of things to come for PC industry….
Lenovo Group, the world’s biggest maker of personal computers, is expecting year-on-year PC sales to begin…
Saudi Prince arrives in UK with charm offensive and $90bn in trade deals
The UK and Saudi Arabia this week agreed to boost mutual trade and investment between the…
New North Sea discoveries make UK net oil producer for first time since 2004
The UK stands set on the brink of becoming a net oil producer for the first…
Branson brings hyperloop to India
The journey time between Mumbai and the university town of Pune could be slashed from three…
City of London looks to China and BRI to soften Brexit blow
Brexit: Around 200 British and Chinese government representatives and business leaders will gather in London this…
Trebles all round! Cameron cashes in on Brexit through Belt & Road fund role
Former UK Prime Minister David Cameron has taken on a new role leading a government-backed investment…
Crack in Forties pipeline forces UK to turn to Yamal LNG to meet demand
The discovery of a crack in the North Sea’s Forties gas pipeline and its subsequent temporary…
IFC signs up insurance giants to tackle Asian infrastructure needs
The IFC yesterday announced that it had teamed up with the Prudential’s Asian asset management business…