Latest housing data from Halifax shows a slowdown in activity, but affordability is improving. IFS has a warning for the Chancellor ahead of the Budget. Trump hails “the historic dawn of a new Middle East”.
Read More
Bank Rate was cut to 4% in August. UK house price growth slows, but homes are still 20% more valuable since 2020. Northern regions outperform while London lags. Read more in our Residential Property Review.
Read More
A global trade war would create renewed inflation, increasing pressure on British families
Read More
Last week, President Trump took to the podium to make his much anticipated ‘Liberation Day’ global trade announcement. He unveiled a raft of expensive new tariffs on almost all imported goods to the US, set to affect nearly every country in the world, with the intention of increasing homegrown production and addressing what the President […]
Read More
Read our latest newsletter – Your Window on Wealth – including positioning your portfolio in a protectionist word, HNWIs facing gaps in retirement and succession planning, start the new tax year off with a robust plan and take a look at global megatrends reshaping our world
Read More
A trade deal between the UK and US could be agreed “very quickly,” President Donald Trump said at a White House press conference with Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
Read More
One week on, as the dust settles on Labour’s landslide victory, the new government have wasted no time getting to work.
Read More
Following weeks of intense campaigning, the electorate has delivered its verdict. As widely expected, the Labour Party has secured a historic landslide victory, soaring past the magic 326 seat mark in the early hours of Friday morning.
Read More
With less than a week until polling day next Thursday, the last few days of campaigning have become more heated as all parties put their cases to the electorate.
Read More
The election campaign clock keeps ticking with less than two weeks until polling day. All candidates have been beating the campaign trail and over 600,000 people registered to vote on deadline day.
Read More
This week, the election campaign grew in policy substance, as the major parties published manifestos detailing their visions for the UK, and leaders were interviewed and visited key constituencies. As expected, tax plans were a major talking point for all parties.
Read More
The second full week of the campaign began with Monday’s YouGov poll projecting the Labour Party was on course to win 422 seats, securing the biggest parliamentary majority since 1924, when Stanley Baldwin was elected. The poll predicted the Conservative Party would win 140 seats, the Liberal Democrats 48 seats and the Scottish National Party […]
Read More
Early S&P Global/CIPS UK Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) survey data for August has highlighted that weaker household spending and increasing interest rates contributed towards a decline in demand for both services and goods during the month.
Read More
Official figures released last week by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed that UK gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by 0.1% in May. Analysts pointed to the additional bank holiday for the coronation as a key factor in this decline.
Read More