In the year to September bank lending to British households rose by only 0.9%.
Its lending to British firms rose by a quarter between 2009-10 and 2011-12.
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In afternoon trading, the FTSE 100 index of leading British shares rose 4.56 percent, Germany's DAX index jumped 8.66 percent, and France's CAC-40 rose 3.15 percent.
As a result Britain was soon absorbing more than 50% of all inward investment in Europe, the British economy rose from the sixth to the fourth largest in the world, and its production per capita, having been half that of Germany's in the 1970s, became, by the early years of the 21st century, one-third higher.
Revenue in the firm's main insurance division, which covers Irish as well as British customers, rose by 7%.
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The report takes particular aim at Mr. Hinton, a British journalist who rose to run News International after decades at Rupert Murdoch's side.
British applications to Harvard rose by a third between the last academic year and the present one.
Harvard still gained the top spot, but the number of British universities in the top 20 rose to twice that of the Jiao Tong rankings.
Still, Rose is the only British player to advance to the 30-man Tour Championship, with Luke Donald and Ian Poulter eliminated, Donald by the smallest of margins.
Golf A great year for veteran Mark O'Meara with two majors, while a new star bloomed on the British golf scene in young Justin Rose only to wither in the autumn.
Mugabe rose to power after ousting the British-backed, white-ruled regime led by Ian Smith.
Shares in Zeneca, the British firm that makes the drug, initially rose but then fell when it became clear that Zeneca's patent on the drug has already run out in Europe and runs out in America in 2002.
However, they are in harmony with a report just released by the British Bankers Association saying mortgage lending by UK banks rose by almost a third in March.
President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair stood together in the Rose Garden for the last time Thursday in a news conference that was largely a defense of the Iraq war, an event that has shaped their common legacy.
Rose Prince, a food journalist and author, says British people prefer not to think about it.
Around the turn of the millennium, Vodafone was the boldest and most ambitious of British companies on the global takeover trail - and its share price rose on the expectation that its acquisitions would be good for investors' wealth.
Woburn has previously hosted 16 editions of the British Masters, the most recent being in 2002 when England's Justin Rose won over the Marquess Course.
Most British readers will have strong memories of Ruth Lawrence, the brilliant mathematician who rose to national fame when she went to Oxford University aged 12.
Meanwhile sales of CD albums rose by 5.6% in the UK last year, the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) reported.
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By contrast, British GDP fell 2.4 percentage points between 2007 and 2011, while employment actually rose, by 0.3%.
Mr Rose has swept away any lingering guesswork and approximation about the intellectual life of the British working classes in the industrial age.
In Europe, the FTSE 100 index of leading British shares was down 0.4 percent at 6, 428 while Germany's DAX rose 0.1 percent to 7, 918.
For instance, the British Retail Consortium (BRC) has said that like-for-like retail sales in January rose 1.9% compared with January 2012 - the biggest rise in more than a year.
With two ex-Rose Bakery chefs in the kitchen, it's no wonder that top-notch traditional British fare is the order of the day here.
In Europe, the FTSE 100 index of leading British shares was up 0.4 percent at 6, 550 while the CAC-40 in France rose 0.6 percent higher to 3, 931.
Figures released by the British Retail Consortium earlier this week suggested that food and drink was the only category in which UK retail sales rose in August from the previous month.
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