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Today's business and finance round up 14th June 2022

Recession fears grow as UK economy shrinks

June 14, 2022

14th June 2022

Bite-sized business news from the UK and beyond

Good morning Should employers be doing more to help workers cope with the cost of living crisis? Lloyds Bank certainly feels that way. Yesterday the UK’s biggest high street bank announced it will give out £1,000 bonuses to its staff in a bid to help them pay their bills amid 40-year high inflation. Lloyds says that 99.5% of its 65,000 employees will be eligible for the extra cash.

Today's stories

  • Recession fears grow as UK economy shrinks 

  • UK and EU tussle over Brexit trade deal

ECONOMYRecession fears grow as UK economy shrinks

  • Services, which makes up around two-thirds of the economy, fell by 0.3% driven by the reduction in NHS Test and Trace activity. 

  • Manufacturing fell by 1.0%, as businesses continue to report the impact of price increases and supply chain shortages.

  • Construction also fell by 0.4% following strong growth in March when the industry was busy repairing the damage from the storms the month before.

Other stories to keep you in the loop

  • Markets tumble amid economic concerns

  • UK tech startups raise £12.4bn amid public market slowdown

  • Bitcoin plummets to lowest level since December 2020 

  • Oxford Street: Tax investigation into US-themed sweet shops

  • Thameslink and London bus group Go-Ahead faces two takeover bids

  • Russia made £79bn in first 100 days of Ukraine war by selling oil and gas to the world

  • Elon Musk to hold first meeting with Twitter staff this week

  • US stores report tampon shortage as women struggle to find product

BREXITUK and EU tussle over Brexit trade deal 

Stat of the day

Google will pay $118m to settle a lawsuit that includes over 15k women who accuse the tech giant of paying them less than their male counterparts

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