• Bank of England hikes rates by 25 basis points

  Thursday 23 Mar 2023

  (Sharecast News) - The Bank of England hiked interest rates by 25 basis points on Thursday to 4.25%, as expected, in the face of rising inflation.

• BoE hikes by 25bp, says inflation likely to fall sharply over rest of 2023

  Thursday 23 Mar 2023

  (Sharecast News) - The Bank of England went ahead and raised rates as expected, saying that global growth was expected to be stronger than anticipated in the February Monetary Policy Report.

• Swiss National Bank hikes rates by 50 basis points

  Thursday 23 Mar 2023

  (Sharecast News) - The Swiss National Bank hiked its key policy rate on Thursday for the fourth meeting in a row, by 50 basis points to 1.50%, in line with consensus expectations.

• Producer price rises slow as demand softens - CBI

  Wednesday 22 Mar 2023

  (Sharecast News) - UK manufacturers saw both output and orders ease in the three months to March, a survey published on Wednesday showed.

• House price growth slows sharply - ONS

  Wednesday 22 Mar 2023

  (Sharecast News) - UK house price growth slowed sharply in January, official data showed on Wednesday.

• UK inflation unexpectedly jumps to 10.4%

  Wednesday 22 Mar 2023

  (Sharecast News) - Inflation unexpectedly pushed higher last month, official data showed on Wednesday, driven by the soaring cost of food.

• European banks can weather market turmoil, says S&P

  Tuesday 21 Mar 2023

  (Sharecast News) - European banks can weather the recent market turmoil, according to Standard & Poor's.

• Europe construction output shows healthy growth in January

  Tuesday 21 Mar 2023

  (Sharecast News) - Construction output in Europe showed significant growth in January compared to the previous month, According to data from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, released on Tuesday.

• German investor sentiment deteriorates in March - ZEW

  Tuesday 21 Mar 2023

  (Sharecast News) - German business sentiment deteriorated more than expected in March amid concerns about the banking crisis, according to a survey released on Tuesday by the ZEW Center for European Economic Research in Mannheim.

• UK government borrowing hits record for February

  Tuesday 21 Mar 2023

  (Sharecast News) - UK government borrowing hit a record high for February due to the energy support scheme, according to figures released on Tuesday by the Office for National Statistics.

• Eurozone trade narrows in January on weaker imports

  Monday 20 Mar 2023

  (Sharecast News) - The single currency bloc's shortfall on trade in goods with the rest of the world narrowed at the start of 2023, but only because imports fell more quickly than exports.

• German economy to shrink in Q1

  Monday 20 Mar 2023

  (Sharecast News) - The German economy is expected to contract in the first quarter, according to the Bundesbank.

• UK workers '£11k worse off since 2008' due to stagnant wage growth

  Monday 20 Mar 2023

  (Sharecast News) - British workers are £11,000 worse off a year after 15 years of "unprecedented" wage stagnation and economic policy failure, the Resolution Foundation think tank said on Monday.

• Ofwat tightens stance on dividend policies

  Monday 20 Mar 2023

  (Sharecast News) - Water industry watchdog Ofwat will halt the payment of dividends by water company if it tests their financial resilience and take action against group's that fail to link dividend payments to performance.

• PBoC maintains loan prime rates as expected

  Monday 20 Mar 2023

  (Sharecast News) - The People's Bank of China announced on Monday that it will maintain current loan prime rates (LPR) for both one- and five-year loans, following a 0.25 percentage point cut in the reserve requirement ratio (RRR) for nearly all banks last week.

• UK only G7 member to see economy shrink this year, says OECD

  Friday 17 Mar 2023

  (Sharecast News) - The UK will be the only industrialised country other than Russia to see its economy shrink this year, according to projections from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

• China's central bank trims reserve ratio earlier than expected

  Friday 17 Mar 2023

  (Sharecast News) - China's central bank, the People's Bank of China, announced on Friday that it will be cutting the reserve requirement ratio (RRR) for all banks, except those with a 5% ratio, by 25-basis points from 27 March.

• Eurozone inflation eases as expected in February

  Friday 17 Mar 2023

  (Sharecast News) - Annual inflation in the eurozone eased in February but core inflation continued to rise, according to data released on Friday by Eurostat.

• UK faces higher taxes, lower living standards after Budget, say think tanks

  Thursday 16 Mar 2023

  (Sharecast News) - Britons face a decade of lower living standards and poorer public services while paying higher taxes, leading think tanks warned on Thursday after the government's spring Budget.

• UK's Hunt abolishes lifetime pension allowance

  Wednesday 15 Mar 2023

  (Sharecast News) - UK Finance Minister Jeremy Hunt said he was abolishing the lifetime pensions allowance.

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