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When is the next Bank of England base rate meeting?
The Bank of England cut interest rates to 3.75% in December 2025. When is the next Monetary Policy Committee meeting and will interest rates fall further in 2026?
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What is your personal inflation rate and how do you calculate it?
Inflation in the UK has been consistently above the 2% target since late 2024, but the high price growth will affect people to differing degrees.
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What turns a stock market crash into a financial crisis?
Opinion Professor Linda Yueh's popular book on major stock market crashes misses key lessons, says Max King
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ISA reforms will destroy the last relic of the Thatcher era
Opinion With the ISA under attack, the Labour government has now started to destroy the last relic of the Thatcher era, returning the economy to the dysfunctional 1970s
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Why does Trump want Greenland?
The US wants to annex Greenland as it increasingly sees the world in terms of 19th-century Great Power politics and wants to secure crucial national interests
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UK inflation: Consumer Prices Index release dates
The UK’s inflation reports are published monthly. When do they come out and where are prices heading?
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22 January 1979: Public sector strike cripples Britain
Features On this day in 1979, thousands of public sector workers downed tools over the Labour government's unpopular policy to tackle inflation.
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UK inflation forecast: where are prices heading next?
UK inflation rose in December. Are we in for another period of rising inflation – or was the increase just a blip?
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What is stagflation and what can be done about it?
The UK economy is showing signs of weakness, but inflation remains stubbornly high – a dangerous combination that economists call ‘stagflation’
