Money Minute Friday 29 November: UK house prices, newspaper results and eurozone inflation
Today's Money Minute looks to the latest reading on house prices from Nationwide, plus results from newspaper publisher Reach, and inflation in the eurozone.
In the UK this morning, we get the latest reading on house prices from Nationwide.
On the corporate front, we'll get an insight into the state of the print press as Daily Mirror and Daily Star publisher Reach formerly known as Trinity Mirror releases a trading update.
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In the eurozone, we get the October figures for unemployment across the region. In September, unemployment came in at 7.5% and it's expected to have stayed at that level last month too.
There's also the latest inflation data. Inflation remains particularly weak in the eurozone, hovering at an annual rate of around or below 1%.
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A quarter of a million more pensioners in poverty after state pension age rises – will it go higher?When the state pension age rose to 66, the percentage of 65-year-olds in income poverty more than doubled, new research suggests
