Economic overview for May 2026
The situation in the Middle East has dominated the news since late February, when the US and Israel launched their first strikes on Iran. Since then, there has
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Economic overview for April 2026
While the fast-moving news cycle makes it challenging to predict what’s next for British businesses, the latest data captures a snapshot of the UK economy before the first
The chancellor’s deliberately dull spring statement
The Treasury and the Chancellor had specifically trailed the Spring Statement as being nothing more than the announcement of the Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR) latest forecast and the
Economic overview for March 2026
A lot has changed since the latest economic data was released. The highly anticipated spring statement was something of a non-event, but the outbreak of war in Iran
Economic overview for February 2026
Only an eternal optimist would suggest that the UK economy had a satisfactory year in 2025, with its disappointing mix of sluggish growth, sticky inflation and pallid business
Economic overview for November 2025
Whilst global news is awash with policy change, tariff threats and global ‘peace making’, here in the UK it is well nigh impossible to escape the pre-math of