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UK Needs Tough Action on Government Budget Policy, OECD Warns
"The state of the public finances is a significant downside risk to the outlook if the fiscal rules are to be met," the OECD ...
Bank of England warns pace of rate cuts ‘shrouded in uncertainty’
Markets are pricing in around two further interest rate cuts this year but the MPC’s hawkish view on the economy has eased ...
BoE’s Dhingra: Would have preferred bank rate to have followed a different path
Bank of England (BoE) policymaker Swati Dhingra is speaking just ahead of her testimony on the May Monetary Policy Report ...
Bank of England governor expects interest rates and pay to decrease this year
Andrew Bailey cited the loosening of the UK's labour market as one key indicator in the bank's most recent decision.
The Bank of England’s bond sales might finally become a hot topic. Does the OBR care?
If the bank sticks to the £100 billion run-off, Reeves will be £5.9 billion better off in the Autumn Budget than if it caves in to market pressure and scraps active sales of debt, according to ...
GBP/USD Forecast: Pound Sterling loses traction on mixed BoE commentary
GBP/USD edges lower toward 1.3500 in the European session on Tuesday. BoE policymakers testified on the monetary policy ...
IMF upgrades UK economic growth forecast - but issues tariffs warning
Despite an agreement with the Trump administration, the UK economy will be hit by tariffs and suffer from "weak" productivity ...
UK public spending will swell to more than half of GDP, IMF warns
The British state will swell to more than half the total size of the UK economy under the government’s current plans, the IMF ...
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Tariff tensions to drag down UK economy next year, says IMF
Economists at the IMF said global trade tensions are expected to wipe 0.3 percentage points off growth for 2026.