The good, for some, news is that the rich in the UK are not getting much richer, although the poor...
Tag archive for: Inflation

“Bank of England lowers base rate to 4.75%”
In other more parochial news, UK interest rates have moved down by 0.25% to 4.75%. ‘At last’, if...
“Inflation falls below BoE target at 1.7%”
It seems like only yesterday that we were fretting over inflation of over 10% a year; well, it was...
“Will the £22bn black hole suck the UK back into recession?”
At various motivational how-to-be-successful seminars over the years, I’ve heard the line that...
“Consumer Confidence Drops Amid Budget Uncertainty”
Will they/won't they? Hit pension tax relief/tax-free lump sums/annual allowance/lifetime...
“Bank of England cuts interest rates to 5%”
It’s not a big cut, just 5% of 5.25% to 5%, in fact, a quarter of a percent or 25 basis points as...
“Falling UK wage growth boosts chances of August rate cut”
Silver linings and all that. Growth in wages is slowing, (some) inflation is down, which means...
“Bank of England maintains interest rate at 16-year high”
News that interest rates aren’t coming down yet could be spun as a positive, at least they’re not...
“US labour market continues to show resilience with 303,000 jobs added in March”
Good news is not, of course, always good news. The US economy is doing well, higher interest rates...
“UK shop price inflation drops to two-year low in March”
Aged 13 (different times), my first Saturday job was in a supermarket (the Coop in Selsdon, if you...
“UK inflation falls to lowest level since 2022”
Well, here’s something to put a smile on Rishi and Jeremy’s collective faces: inflation has...
“Is the UK recession over? Latest UK GDP stats show growth uptick in January: investment experts warn against complacency”
We have been or are, depending on your point of view or choice of statistics, in the midst of a...
“Do not expect America’s interest rates to fall just yet”
As rehearsed many times on these pages, the next move onwards and upwards for your investments...
“UK slips into recession as economy contracts 0.1% in December”
This week’s big economic and bad election news is that we are, or certainly have been, officially...
“What next for investors if interest rates have peaked?”
What next is a much better couple (or more) of years ahead. If you have investments, you’ll have...