November 24th, 2025
By Jonathan Cook
When it came to pre-Budget prep, the chancellor could hardly have had a worse Friday. New figures showed UK government borrowing overshot expectations in October....
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November 21st, 2025
By Christopher Nye
Government borrowing is even higher than expected and shoppers aren’t shopping, are the two pieces of bad news that chancellor Rachel Reeves has woken up to. The Office...
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November 20th, 2025
By Jonathan Cook
Sterling weakened against its peers on Wednesday, weighed down by cooling inflation and renewed confidence that the Bank of England would cut interest rates next month....
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November 19th, 2025
By Christopher Nye
The widely expected fall in inflation to 3.6% announced this morning provoked some downward movement for sterling but it appears to have quickly corrected itself. The...
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November 18th, 2025
By Jonathan Cook
Sterling enjoyed a more optimistic Monday as last week’s Budget-induced fever began to break. The pound strengthened against the US dollar and the euro across the day,...
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November 17th, 2025
By Jonathan Cook
Last Friday began with bombshell reports that Chancellor Rachel Reeves was set to ditch her well-publicised plans to raise income tax at the autumn Budget (26...
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