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Keith Brown Latest official figures published today have shown the Scottish economy grew by 0.4 per cent in the second quarter of 2016.

Abolishing rates help for smaller Scottish firms would result in thousands of cancelled investments and business closures, according to the Federation of Small Businesses’ (FSB).

Home-owners borrowed £12.2bn for house purchase in August, up 14 per cent month-on-month and 11 per cent year-on-year.

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A dip in confidence has been recorded among Scottish manufacturers with almost one in four (23 per cent) blaming uncertainty following the EU vote and nearly one in three (30 per cent) citing global economic concerns as the main barrier to growth.

Edinburgh private investment company Murray Capital Group (MCG) has reported a £6 million jump in annual profits.

Council leader Frank McAveety detailed the report’s six recommendationsGlasgow City Council has called on the Scottish and UK governments to accelerate City Deal capital infrastructure works and transfer surplus land to the council for major housing building programmes as part of a range of measu

RGL Management Limited, the group gearing-up to launch a class action lawsuit against Royal Bank of Scotland over the conduct of its disbanded Global Restructuring Group, has said its numbers and value will soar after damning revelations were published in leaked internal documents.

The business rates system in Scotland should aim to reflect economic reality and maximise investment, according to CBI Scotland's response to the Independent Review of Scottish Business Rates.

Partners at legal firm CMS UK, which has three offices in Scotland, have joined those at Nabarro and Olswang in backing a plan to combine their firms and create what will be the world’s sixth largest law firm by headcount and sixth largest in the UK by revenue.

Average starting salaries for professional roles in the UK have grown by 3.68 per cent in the past three years and the upward trend is set to continue next year, according to Robert Half's 2017 Salary Guide.

Virgin Media has announced plans to connect an additional 360,000 homes and businesses in Scotland to its fibre optic network by the end of 2019, as part of its £3bn Project Lightning network expansion across the UK.

Jayne-anne Gadhia Edinburgh giants Standard Life and Bank of Scotland owner Lloyds, as well as Aberdeen Asset Management are among the Scottish firms which have signed up, along with Edinburgh-based Virgin Money, Capital Credit Union and East Renfrewshire Credit Union, to the UK government’s Women

Jeremy Peat Leading Scottish academics have warned that the UK government’s decision to pursue a “hard Brexit” in order to secure a limitation on immigration at the cost of access to the European single market has left Scotland and the UK’s future economic prospects “bleak”.

Ally Scott The value of UK M&A in Q3 of 2016 increased from the previous quarter, despite Brexit uncertainty, according to latest data released by EY.