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(The Guardian Business News)

Rolling live coverage of business, economics and markets as riskier assets boosted `No change´ in Boris Johnson´s condition - live updatesLarge increases on European stock markets UK house prices remain near record highs but growth stalls Coronavirus - latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage 9.48am BST UK productivity has remained weak following the financial crisis more than a decade ago. There is a clear break in the following graph from the Office for National Statistics. 9.37am BST UK labour productivity in the last quarter of 2019, as measured by output per hour, grew by 0.3% compared with the same quarter a year ago, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).The ONS said this completes a decade of weak productivity growth, the so-called `productivity puzzle` that economists have struggled to explain. Continue reading...