Slowing wage growth complicates economic picture ahead of the Budget
Wages grew 5.7% over the three months to January versus 6% last month
Macro News
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Weekly outlook: Chancellor to deliver spring budget
Key events for UK wealth managers for the week starting 13 March
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Weekly outlook: BP to report in wake of Shell’s £32bn bonanza
Key events for UK wealth managers for the week starting 6 February
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BoE votes 7-2 to lift rates to 4% with further hikes likely
As the central bank acknowledges inflation has likely peaked
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Weekly outlook: Central banks to keep hiking as Apple and Shell report
Key events for UK wealth managers for the week starting 30 January
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Weekly outlook: UK inflation numbers drop and Netflix reports
Key events for UK wealth managers for the week starting 16 January
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Hawkish Fed remains in flight as US CPI keeps falling
‘Inflation still isn’t fully handled, and it’s easy for markets to get carried away’ warns one analyst
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Weekly outlook: Japanese bonds a litmus test for global inflation
Key events for UK wealth managers for the week starting 19 December
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UK CPI falls to 10.7% as industry mulls future trajectory
Falling motor fuel prices took the largest bite out of the November inflation figures
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Weekly outlook: UK and US central banks poised to slow interest rate hikes?
Key events for UK wealth managers for the week starting 12 December
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Fears ‘blunt instrument’ windfall tax could undermine UK net zero goals
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt increased the energy profits levy while scrapping the vehicle excise duty exemption for electric vehicles
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Markets steady as Hunt pledges to ‘face into the storm’
But ‘no winners’ for investors after cuts to capital gains and dividend tax thresholds