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The Monetary Policy Committee meets later this week to decide whether another hike in interest rate is needed, or if the fourteen that have taken place in this cycle have slowed demand sufficiently for inflation to follow.Over the past two we
It was expected that the economy would have failed to post any growth in July as the poor weather and a series of strikes led the economy to shrink by 0.5%. Another hike in interest rates also contributed to falling demand and led to fears th
There has been a remarkable turnaround in the fortunes of the country in the past three months. The country was headed for a damaging recession as a “doom loop” of negative economic developments looked likely to engulf it. Then the IMF produc
Catherine Mann is far and away the most hawkish member of the Monetary Policy Committee. She spoke yesterday of her view that interest rates should continue to rise if inflation remains above the Government's 2% target.She went on to say that
The data that is due to be published this week will go a long way towards determining the path for Sterling for the rest of the year.Tomorrow, the August employment report will be released. It is expected that the claimant count will have inc
Huw Pill, the Chief Economist at the Bank of England spoke yesterday of the determination of the Bank to “see through to the end” its fight against inflation. Many observers took that as a hint that there will be another twenty-five-basis poi
There continue to be more mixed signals this week for the UK economy as a measure of business optimism rose to its highest level since before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but housing market activity was shown to be 20% lower than it was a y
The UK continues to delay additional food safety checks on imports from the European Union since they fear that the additional delays created by performing the checks will create shortages and drive up inflation.This is yet another demonstrat
It is expected that inflation will have fallen again when the data for August is published. While that will be welcomed by the Bank of England, it is unlikely to encourage the Monetary Policy Committee to pause the cycle of increases in the bas
Although some progress has been made in the fight against inflation, interest rate futures markets are still discounting two further hikes this year. There is also a long-held view amongst economists and market commentators that the base rate w
The Bank of England, in common with other global Central Banks, looks at trends in the economy and tends to consider “outliers” as just that, issues that are due to a specific event or issue.Examples of this are the boost to GDP likely to hap
The outcome of next month’s MPC meeting, the sixth this year, is still on a knife edge. Although inflation has finally begun to see a meaningful fall, Andrew Bailey and his colleagues are “glorying” in keeping the markets guessing.While the l
The mid to late eighties were a time of momentous change in UK financial services. In 1986, Big Bank took place which revolutionised the way equities were traded which allowed easier access to the market to the “man in the Street.”This was al
“Twas always thus.” Despite grand plans to “level up” the country economically by trying to make investment more attractive to business, London and the South East are still propping up the rest of the country.Having shattered the “Red Wall”
England’s qualification for the women’s world cup final which will take place in Sydney on Sunday is expected to provide a £185 million boost to the economy. At the current time when the economy is teetering between positive and negative GDP re
Good news about inflation has been in short supply for quite some time, but yesterday the Government and Bank of England will have been buoyed by the news that headline price increases fell by more than one percent in July.While the data had
The publication yesterday of the July employment report focussed the market’s attention, as predicted, more on the possibility of a price/wage spiral than the number of people in work.Average earnings rose by a record 7.8% in the three months
From the mid-seventies to the mid-eighties’ redundancy became a significant factor of working life as more firms rationalized their workforce to deal with the slowing economy. It is possible that the same effect is taking place now, with the
Inflation is expected to have fallen last month by more than one per cent, which will provide some encouragement to the MPC for it to consider when to pause or halt entirely the current cycle of interest rate hikes. However, wholesale price i
The Bank of England surprised no one with its decision to hike interest rates again yesterday, for the fourteenth consecutive time. In the end, it was something of a surprise, however, that a hike of only twenty-five basis points was agreed, co
The Bank of England surprised no one with its decision to hike interest rates again yesterday, for the fourteenth consecutive time. In the end, it was something of a surprise, however, that a hike of only twenty-five basis points was agreed, co
Since he came to power, it has been an obvious policy of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to be seen to be “getting on with the job.” Naturally far less flamboyant than his predecessor, Boris Johnson, Sunak has not made many significant policy speech
House prices in the UK fell by almost 4% last month as interest rate increases made passing an affordability test more difficult, particularly for first-time buyers.This was the largest fall since 2009, the height of the financial crisis. The
The UK yesterday challenged the accepted logic over global warming and climate change by agreeing to issue hundreds of new licenses for exploration and drilling for oil and gas in the North Sea. It had been agreed that for countries to meet z
HSBC and Nationwide led the way last week in reducing their standard rate for floating rate mortgages as interest rates stabilized. However, the rate for a two-fixed loan was still higher than it was at the start of the month. The peak was at 6
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