{"id":106877,"date":"2019-08-21T15:48:08","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T13:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/08\/21\/uk-government-borrowing-misses-targets-historic-german-bond-sale-business-live\/"},"modified":"2019-08-21T15:48:08","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T13:48:08","slug":"uk-government-borrowing-misses-targets-historic-german-bond-sale-business-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=106877","title":{"rendered":"UK government borrowing misses targets; historic German bond sale &#8211; business live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK borrowing is rising faster than expected this year, as government spending outpaces incomeLatest: UK surplus weaker than hopedSurplus of \u00a31.3bn in July misses forecast of \u00a32.7bnJuly should be a strong month for tax receiptsUK has borrowed \u00a36bn more this year already 2.48pm BST My colleague Severin Carrell has spotted that Scotland ran a deficit seven times higher than the UK as a whole last year, despite again cutting its overspend on public services.He writes:The latest Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland (Gers) figures showed there was a record gap of nearly \u00a32,000 per person between how much was spent on public services and debt repayment, and total tax revenues for 2018\/19.Scotland\u2019s notional deficit stood at \u00a312.6bn or 7% of GDP, including North Sea oil revenues, compared to the UK\u2019s total \u00a323.5bn deficit \u2013 which includes Scotland\u2019s figure, equivalent to 1.1% of UK GDP. Related: Scotland&#8217;s 2018 deficit higher than UK as a whole last year 2.45pm BST US retailer Target has lifted the New York stock market, by beating profit and revenue forecasts.Target grew earnings by 17% in the last quarter, as its in-store pickup and same-day shipping services proved popular. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2019\/aug\/21\/trade-war-trump-china-german-bond-uk-public-finances-markets-business-live\" target=\"_blank\">UK government borrowing misses targets; historic German bond sale &#8211; business live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK borrowing is rising faster than expected this year, as government spending outpaces incomeLatest: UK surplus weaker than hopedSurplus of \u00a31.3bn in July misses forecast of \u00a32.7bnJuly should be a strong month for tax receiptsUK has borrowed \u00a36bn more this year already 2.48pm BST My colleague Severin Carrell has spotted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}