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The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee has posted a 78-page report outlining its musings on the future for inflation ...

UK inflation ... 5% in the year to December, down from 2.6% the month before, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said. It means prices are still rising but at a slower pace than before. Easing ...

UK inflation marginally fell in the year to December but remained stubbornly above the Bank of England's 2% target. Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation rose to 2.5% in the 12 months to December ...

The UK’s statistics office collected prices for air fares on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve last month ... half of the fall in services inflation from 5% to 4.4%. The quirk may have given ...

Britain entered a rare deficit in its goods trade with the United States at the end of last year, according to data published ...

The first central bank meetings of 2025 suggest it will be a year in which policymakers go their own way as economic paths diverge, as the United States holds interest rates steady, the euro zone cuts ...

The UK does not operate in a vacuum, so what happens elsewhere has an impact here. A week ago, the European Central Bank cut interest rates in the Eurozone from 3% to 2.75%. That made it five cuts ...

The Office for National Statistics said Wednesday that inflation, as measured by the consumer prices index, was 2.5% in the ... the coming year or two, so if policymakers look past an anticipated ...

In a blow for Rachel Reeves, the Bank downgraded its GDP growth forecast for this year. We pick out five crucial Bank of England charts ... UK economic activity, the overall effect on UK ...