UK recession fears swirl as factory output falls and house prices slide – as it happened

Nationwide reports average house prices fell 3.8% in year to July, biggest annual drop in 14 years, while manufacturers suffer worst month of 2023

UK house prices fall at fastest rate since 2009 after interest rate rises

Nationwide says cost of a typical home is £260,828 after 3.8% year-on-year drop in July

Clothing and footwear among items reduced most in July as retailers try to counter bad weather

FCA gives banks four weeks to justify savings rates as it lays out 14-point plan to monitor treatment of customers

UK mortgage approvals rise to eight-month high in June, while eurozone GDP rises after narrowly avoiding winter recession

76-year-old man was threatened with court action and turned to food handouts after E.ON mistake

Surprise jump in demand for home loans as borrowers ‘scramble’ to get ahead of interest rate increases

It had sent me new ones but before they arrived £1,000 disappeared from my account

FCA’s new rules aimed at improving value for money for customers and preventing ‘foreseeable harm’

Measures to help households seemingly abandoned by ministers, says campaign group

Poverty charity the Joseph Rowntree Foundation warns of ‘debt timebomb’ as interest rate rises hit low-income households

Data shows increase from 3.3% to 6.6% since December 2021, which was before interest rate rises

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Since the pandemic toilet paper has come out of the shadows to take centre stage in UK bathrooms

Moves by Nationwide, HSBC and TSB come after fall in inflation eases fears over future interest rate rises