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Business Hiring Intentions Cool as Minimum Wage Increase Comes Into Focus

Business confidence remains high, but hiring intentions have eased as the April increase in the minimum wage comes into sharper focus, particularly for the UK's smaller companies.

March 27,2024

Chocolate Crisis: Surging Cocoa Prices Spurred by Margin Calls

Kathleen Brooks, research director at XTB, explains what's driving the extraordinary rise in cocoa prices, which threatens to make chocolate the "new luxury good in town".

March 27,2024

Fed Could Cut As Soon As May: Standard Chartered

Steve Englander, an economist at Standard Chartered, suggests that Fed Chair Powell may be willing to accept dissents in order to facilitate timely interest rate cuts at the Federal Reserve.

March 26,2024

Consumers Increasingly Optimistic About Personal Finances

Consumers’ optimism about their own finances going forward has hit a two-year high.

March 28,2024

Retail Sales Have Pulled UK Out of Recession, and Brighter Days Lie Ahead

UK retail sales were flat in February, but this was better than expected and underscores a trend of improvement that means the UK economy has exited recession.

May 3,2024

50/50 Odds Bank of England Cuts Interest Rates in May, Says Deutsche Bank

A leading investment bank says there is a 50/50 chance the Bank of England cuts interest rates in May.

March 22,2024

Bank of England Running Out of Reasons Not to Cut Rates: IEA

There is an "urgent need for the Bank of England to begin cutting rates" says a think tank following another below-consensus UK inflation report.

March 20,2024

More Articles …

  1. Inflation Expectations Drop, Putting Bank of England in Comfortable Territory
  2. UK Economy Set for "Strong" Q1 Recovery: Pantheon Macroeconomics
  3. RBC Revises Fed Call, Forecasts Quarterly Rate Cuts Amidst Economic Resilience
  4. Fiscal Rules: Three Fixes for a Broken System from Oxford Economics
  5. UK-Orientated Shares a Winner of Spring Budget
  6. 2p NI Cut: "Tatty-looking Ferret Dragged from a Box"
  7. China's New 5% Growth Target Looks Ambitious, Say Economists
  8. Retail Sales Hit by Wettest February on Record But Tipped to Recover

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