UK firms' risk appetite picks up even as election looms: Deloitte

LONDON (Reuters) - British companies are feeling their most confident about taking on business risk in seven years despite worries about an election in 2015 and a possible referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union, a survey showed on Monday. In a change of mood likely to be welcomed by the Bank of England, 72 percent of chief financial officers said now was a good time to take risk onto their balance sheets, according to the quarterly survey by accountants Deloitte. That was up from 65 percent in the previous survey conducted in the second quarter. "With a resurgent U.S. ...



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