{"id":721660,"date":"2026-01-26T10:20:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T10:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/721660\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T10:20:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T10:20:16","slug":"london-mining-stocks-jump-as-fears-of-us-shutdown-and-tariffs-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/721660\/","title":{"rendered":"London mining stocks jump as fears of US shutdown and tariffs loom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Hundreds of British hospitality businesses shut their doors for good in the final months of 2025, as they warned over further tax hikes following the autumn budget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Industry data showed that there was a particular jump in closures across restaurants and casual dining business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Data from NIQ showed that the hospitality sector saw 382 net closures \u2013 the equivalent of four each day \u2013 in the final three months of 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">It represented a downbeat end to the year after a \u201cslight growth\u201d in the number of venues over the first nine months of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The country had 98,914 hospitality sites, covering pubs, restaurants, cafes and other venues, at the end of December as a result.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Experts linked the fall, which took place at a key trading period, to continued inflation for many major costs, as well as fragile consumer confidence and spending.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The number of restaurants slid by 1% between September and December, with a 1.8% fall for casual dining business, representing 241 closures in total.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">However, other parts of the sector were more robust, with the number of bars rising by 1% against the previous quarter, with many customers opting to spend on drinks over more expensive meals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of British hospitality businesses shut their doors for good in the final months of 2025, as they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,49404,32,393,215395,1880,151474,4884,62507,257,2129,210693,16,15,215396],"class_list":{"0":"post-721660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-department-of-homeland-security","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-federal-government-operations","13":"tag-ftse-100","14":"tag-government-shutdown","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-immigration-enforcement","17":"tag-london","18":"tag-mark-carney","19":"tag-mining-stocks","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom","22":"tag-world39s-largest-economies"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115960900635533884","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}