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Inflation is coming down, with the Consumer Price Index at 3.2 per cent, and that’s good. It will come down further this summer, probably to the...
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It is hard to feel too sorry for Elon Musk. A few days ago he was ranked as No 2 in the global rich list published by Forbes magazine, just behind...
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The British Isa will not of itself move huge amounts more cash into UK equities. The numbers are too small, for the extra £5,000 a year savers can...
It is not going to be so tough being a millennial after all. In the latest annual wealth report from the estate agency Knight Frank to be published...
Keir Starmer has committed Labour to keeping the triple lock on the state pension. That’s the agreement, introduced by the coalition government in...
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Artificial intelligence is the hot subject in Davos this week. The companies that pay for the annual World Economic Forum shindig in the Swiss Alps...
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The euro is 25 years old. Although the notes and coins did not come for another three years, the currencies of the 12 European countries that switched...
This year has been a pretty miserable one for many people for obvious reasons, but it has been a quite humiliating one for the economists. It is not...
Food prices in the UK seem to be easing off at last, with the Office for National Statistics recording that bread and cakes were among the items that...
The world is past the peak of interest rates this cycle and the question now is how fast they will come down. The most important of all the central...
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Budgets – and this Autumn Statement is in effect half of the Budget next spring – are about three things: the economy, finance and politics. On...
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It is getting cheaper to borrow. You may not have noticed that yet, and the Bank of England has merely stopped increasing rates, rather than cutting...
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The Chancellor’s Autumn Statement next month is pretty much the Government’s last shot at presenting the UK electorate with a reason for voting...
It is of course deeply embarrassing. The cutting back of the HS2 rail link is embarrassing for the Government, but more than that, for the country. ...
“Nothing in this world can be said to be certain, except death and taxes,” wrote Benjamin Franklin in 1789. Certain surely, and bundle the two...
If inflation keeps coming down, does the Bank of England need to keep pushing interest rates up? That is the key question the Bank’s monetary policy...