Pound Sterling clings to gains against US Dollar ahead of US CPI
The Pound Sterling (GBP) clings to gains near 1.2450 against the US Dollar (USD) in Wednesday’s European session. The GBP/USD ...
UK interest rates are too restrictive
At 4.5 per cent, the bank rate is well above most estimates of the so-called neutral rate, the point at which monetary policy is neither expansionary nor contractionary. Inflation is close to target, ...
People set for £442 boost in payments as policy on the 'brink of collapse'
The state pension is a huge cost for the Government and with the triple lock policy in place, payments are expected to rise - ...
Annuity sales reach a decade high as better rates prompt more to lock in a guaranteed income for life
Total sales were worth £7billion last year, a 34 per cent increase on 2023, according to the latest data from the Association ...
Every Northern Ireland council to increases rates by more than inflation
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Reeves faces tough choices as fiscal headroom vanishes, raising tax hike fears
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has exhausted the UK’s £9.9bn borrowing buffer, with economists warning she may be forced to raise ...
Rachel Reeves could soon hike income tax rates, experts warn
The National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) has revealed that Reeves’s £9.9 billion fiscal headroom has ...
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‘We don’t run portfolios on this basis’: Advisers refuse to time bonds market
Fund managers see opportunity in the volatile bond markets of late but advisers are less keen to adjust their portfolios to ...
Money blog: Major lender cuts mortgage rates below 4% for first time in 2025
Every Tuesday we get an expert to answer your Money Problems. Today we hear from a reader whose company is passing down the ...
Shock for UK as Bank of England halves its economic growth prediction
The BoE's predictions follow its decision on Thursday to cut its main interest rate for the third time in six months. The ...
'Don't Know Which Planet She Is Living In': Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Criticizes Union FM Nirmala Sitharaman's Parliament Address
New Delhi: Congress leader and Wayanad MP Priyanka Gandhi on Tuesday slammed Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's ...
Trump tariffs could knock economic growth despite Budget boost, says think tank
Niesr said it was projecting the UK economy would grow by 1.5 this year, lifting its previous forecast of 1.2.