November 22nd, 2017
By Kiran Najran
The day began in a disappointing fashion after figures released showed that the UK deficit widened to £8 billion in October. Given that Chancellor Hammond is delivering...
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November 21st, 2017
By Kiran Najran
It was a pretty quiet day for the UK yesterday, as the collapsed German coalition talks took centre stage. Sterling strengthened against the euro as a result and it...
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November 20th, 2017
By Kiran Najran
It was an odd week for UK economic data to be honest, where negatives weren’t quite as grey as they could have been and positives didn’t shine all that brightly. Wage...
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November 17th, 2017
By Kiran Najran
The UK retail sales were released yesterday and made for some interesting viewing. Month-on-month, October’s increase of 0.3% was better than forecasted and this...
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November 16th, 2017
By Ricky Bean
The big news yesterday was that wage growth for the third quarter of 2017 was 2.2%. The concern is that this figure is still some way short of the inflation rate which...
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November 15th, 2017
By Ricky Bean
Although the figure came in better than expected, the UK’s consumer price index came in at 3% which means it held at September’s five-year high of 3%. More...
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