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Stephen Alambritis spokesperson head of the FSB, said that he was not surprised by the lack of faith in the competition since the "switching arrangements are archaic."

"Small businesses want more competition but they are concerned that they have difficulty shopping," he said."Switching must be cleaner, more quickly and within three working days."He said mobile banks could now take up to 10 working days, leaving companies in "empty".

Search eBay compared the perceptions of the small business banking relationships respective with HSBC, Lloyds, Barclays, Santander and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS).

Despite receiving a flood of complaints in the first half of the year following its takeover of Abbey, Alliance & Leicester and Bradford & Bingley, Santander was the best performer in the search for eBay on a number of measures, including customer satisfaction and access to new funding, with only five customers saying that they were unable to obtain new fonds.Il was also customers less complain of being forced to rely on their ease of discovered (19pc)

In contrast, 37pc clients (including NatWest) RBS said they were unable to access new funding from their bank, while 41pc HSBC customers said they had to rely on their discovered.

While a recent advertising campaign saw NatWest make a commitment to become "More useful Bank Britain", half of its customers has rejected the idea whereby it became more useful since the recession, then only 17pc agreed.

Alex Ingham, founder of industrial work wear supplier M.I. Supplies, which makes half of its turnover of ￡ 650,000 via eBay, said service, he received NatWest deteriorated during the recession: "the only time where we received a phone call was if we were gone on our discovered," he said."When you are hundreds of thousands of books from your account transactions you expect to talk to you.?

When he asked a loan guarantee (EAP) - business financing that sees the Government guarantee on a loan from the Bank - 75pc Act for a lack of working capital, M. Ingham said his "" Enterprise Bank Manager had not yet heard the régime.Il was poor service - that they claim to be experts "."

While NatWest eventually lent ￡ 50,000 by the CFA Society, M. Ingham said that it would be ready to banks to get the best service that "it would be a huge problem for us to change.

A NatWest spokesperson said: "we are committed to helping companies to gain access to all forms of available funding and are responsible for approximately half of all loans of EAP in any industry .any matter with an individual staff member is dealt with training."

Thus switching faster arrangements, the FSB is asking the GFE "be taken seriously by the branch managers" and "rear wide call centre approach" for the management of the relationship.

eBay will present his work of the independent Commission on banks (ICB), who is studying the UK banking industry to prevent a recovery of the financial crisis.

Jody Ford, Director of SMEs (firms), eBay UK, says that research shows "Britain's banking system is still broken.

Mr. Ford has recognized that the ICB "facing an array of complex and sensitive issues" but "without decisive action, hope for the private sector recovery Government can prove an entry long."

A spokesman for the British Bankers Association said currently, banks are approving 85pc claims credit for small businesses and added: "simply do not recognize us eBay numbers is quoting.

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WASHINGTON - Manufacturing activity expanded the month at the fastest pace since May due to a surge in new orders and production.

Institute for supply management said its index of manufacturing read 56.9 in October, 54.4 in September.This is the 15th straight month of croissance.Une reading above 50 indicates growth.?

Manufacturing has helped the economy recession last year, but growth slowed last month for the months of lecteur.Activité pink China manufacturing.Survey affiliated with the Government stated its pink able to 54.7 in October of 53.8 in September.

Injured parties Life Inc.: contributions did not shoppers GOP accueillis.Index adversity and target among Democrats: an economy crawling on the floor Life.: Economist says "no double-dip".

Separately, other reports show spending edged up slightly in September, after having fallen to lowest in a decade as a gain in residential projects of activity and the Government has helped offset weakness in commercial projects construction.

The Department of commerce said Monday that spending on construction projects increased by 0.5% in September after fell 0.2 percent in August to the lowest point since July 2000.

Even with small gain in September, remaining 34 percent below the peak of construction activity reached in 2006, when builders knew a residential housing boom.The boom has transformed into a bust that helped drag the country in a severe recession.

In September, all spending edged reaching 801.7 billions of dollars at a seasonally adjusted annual rate compared to spending in 1.21 trillion dollars at an annual rate in March 2006, at the top of the real estate.

Residential activity increased 1.8% at an annual rate of 231,7 billion in September, the first gain after four straight cuts.This weakness reflects the end of a popular buyers who had prompted construction before that ended in April government tax credit.

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Projects of non-residential buildings private posted a decline in 1.6% at an annual rate of 250.3 billion in September after a rise of 0.8% in the month of August .the ' increase August had followed four monthly decline directly into this category, reflecting the deep recession and difficulty manufacturers are having obtained funding for shopping centres and commercial projects.

Spending on government projects rose 1.3% at an annual rate of 319.7 billion dollars.Qui reflects a jump of 6.1% in federal spending and a more modest rise of 0.8 per cent of expenditures of the State and local governments.

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The figures of domestic product raw economy grew at a rate of 2pc in the neighbourhood of the latest showed place 1. 7pc during previous as consumer spending appreciated its gain more pronounced since 2006. A survey of manufacturing in October also showed an increase of surprise, climbing read 60.6 60.4 in September.

However, the relief was temperate end Friday after Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan consumer confidence index fell to its lowest level in a year.

"There is nothing to change the overall picture that the growth rate is too slow to achieve significant progress in the reduction of vast quantities of soft economy," said Ryan Wang, an economist at HSBC.

The figures are among the last released before Tuesday, mid-term elections when Americans should register their disappointment about the State of the economy through delivery of the House of representatives back to Republican control.The next day, Wall Street predicted that the Fed embarking in a second series of easing (QE) - quantitative or money - printing to boost faltering recovery of the largest economy world.

However, the elections and the policy of the Federal Reserve hold considerable risks for the economy still labouring under high unemployment and a stagnante.Observateurs housing market policies more await election to deliver legislative deadlock, which would harm the efforts to shape a second stimulus package so that propose a long-term plan to reduce the deficit.Although most QE Federal Reserve American has broad support among economists, questions about its effectiveness and risk grew louder in recent weeks.

Christopher Pissarides, the UK, who won the Nobel Prize in economics this month, Economist told Bloomberg Friday as EQ "can not achieve much." ""It y a high risk that there may be a "lost decade".?

Friday, the Department of commerce GDP figures are likely to discourage the Chairman of the Fed Ben Bernanke adding 1.7 billion dose (1.1 trillion of ￡) of QE delivered during the month after the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008.The report shows that index - a measure of inflation, supervised by the Central Bank - personal consumption spending has increased at its lowest rate since the last three months of 2008.Plus earlier this month above, Mr. Bernanke warned the risk of the economy, tilt in deflation were too high.

Thus the more concern how effective QE will be to meet its current 9 6pc rate, unemployment remains a doubt considerable on Wall Street about forming policy goes prendre.Les economists at Barclays, for example, expect the fed to buy up to $ $ per month in the u.s. Government in an effort to drive long-term interest rates and stimulate spending obligations.

Well that the tepid recovery remains central to the White House concern a belief that the fiscal deficit poses the biggest obstacle for the economy is growing, especially in the combination of Wall Street bail républicains.Une and higher unemployment benefits has seen more than double this année.Nouriel Roubini, is credited with predicting the financial crisis, 1.29 trillion dollar budget deficit Friday described as a "fiscal train wreck coming" deficit .

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