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Morning, I’m Jacob Reid from Bloomberg UK’s breaking news team, bringing you up to speed on today’s top business stories.
Some good news to end the week. UK retail sales jumped by 0.7% in March, according to the ONS, defying economists’ expectations that they would stagnate.