Finance Tart

A survey conducted by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) has established that the labour market is on the road to recovery.
The research, which questioned 400 recruitment and employment consultancies, showed permanent staff placements increased for the sixth consecutive month in January.
The permanent placement index dipped to 60.5 from December’s 62.8, but remained well [...]

The latest survey from the Nationwide Building Society has revealed a rise in UK consumer confidence for the month of January.
The building society’s consumer confidence index gained three points to 73 in January – nearly double the reading of 39 in the same month a year earlier.
Meanwhile, the Nationwide’s expectations index, which gauges peoples’ sentiment [...]