{"id":14155,"date":"2017-11-07T14:57:11","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T13:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/11\/07\/uk-retail-sales-falter-in-meagre-october-but-house-prices-climb-business-live\/"},"modified":"2017-11-07T14:57:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T13:57:11","slug":"uk-retail-sales-falter-in-meagre-october-but-house-prices-climb-business-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=14155","title":{"rendered":"UK retail sales falter in &#039;meagre&#039; October, but house prices climb \u2013 business live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All the day\u2019s economic and financial news, including a worrying drop in non-food sales in the UK and the Halifax\u2019s house price surveyLatest: John Lewis sales fell again last weekHalifax says house prices jumped by 4.5% in OctoberUK retail sales fell 1% in OctoberNon-food sales worst hitCould FTSE 100 hit a record high today? 1.57pm GMT Over in Greece finance minister Euclid Tsakalotos has reacted furiously to claims \u2013 issued by parliament\u2019s state budget office no less \u2013 that the country faces economic collapse if its staggering debt load is not substantially reduced.\u201cI am surprised at the use of invalid data and ensuing public relations stunt.\u201d 12.41pm GMT I mentioned earlier that house price shortages were keeping UK prices up&#8230;&#8230;.and bang on cue, online estate agents HouseSimple.com have confirmed that this is an issue.\u201cThe housing market is in desperate need of a prolonged period of supply growth rather than isolated months where seller numbers rise, only to fall back the following month.We probably won\u2019t see numbers jump again this year, but steady levels in November and December would at least give the market a strong base going into the New Year, particularly with some heavy Brexit headwinds heading our way. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2017\/nov\/07\/uk-retail-sales-ftse-100-halifax-house-price-business-live\" target=\"_blank\">UK retail sales falter in &#039;meagre&#039; October, but house prices climb \u2013 business live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the day\u2019s economic and financial news, including a worrying drop in non-food sales in the UK and the Halifax\u2019s house price surveyLatest: John Lewis sales fell again last weekHalifax says house prices jumped by 4.5% in OctoberUK retail sales fell 1% in OctoberNon-food sales worst hitCould FTSE 100 hit [&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-14155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14155","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=14155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}