Inflation in the country has been running high for more than two years, making the cost-of-living crisis a heated topic across the nation. The consumer price index (CPI) rose by 3.9 percent in the 12 months to November 2023, mainly due to a drop in fuel prices and slower growth in fo...
As of January 2024, just over half of UK households were still reporting that their cost of living had increased compared with a year earlier. Although this was down from a peak of 91 percent in the Summer of 2022, it is evidence of a persistent problem facing the country. The households...
The evidence indicates that problems associated with the rising cost of living are becoming entrenched over time, with the proportion of people reporting a negative impact on theirmental healthremaining virtually the same from November 2022 to July 2023. 91% of people struggling to cope financially ...
What's causing the UK cost of living crisis? No single factor has led to a crisis of this magnitude. This is a combination of the pandemic's impact, the energy price cap lift, debt, rising taxes, inflation, the rising cost of goods and services, and, I would argue, a lack of gover...
This article analyses 1055 UK national newspaper articles on the cost-of-living crisis published in eighteen months between February 2022 and August 2023. This study utilizes framing analysis to examine the reporting of the crisis, with a specific focus on the presentation of those...
After the failure of Silicon Valley Bank, the war in Ukraine and the cost-of-living crisis, Close Brothers Asset Management looks at the outlook and investment opportunities in 2023. Despite the challenges, Isabel Albarran, investment officer atClose Brothers Asset Managementbelieves that the UK eco...
And the average cost for burials it was £5,894 - a 7.3% rise compared with 2023. The 'cost of dying' is on the increase As you can see from the diagram here, UK funeral costs have been on an upward trend for some time, and look set to continue to rise. ...
The UK economy will shrink and perform worse than other advancedeconomiesas the cost of living continues to hit households, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said. 国际货币基金组织认为:英国经济将会衰退,将会比其它发达经济体表现更差,因为生活成本正在增加。
LONDON, June 10 (Xinhua) -- Despite the government's support packages, including a latest one on housing, the cost-of-living crisis continues to rage in Britain. A survey published by the Bank of England (BoE) on Friday showed that the public's expectations for the rate of inflation were...
UK Mortgage Landscape 2023 ONS data suggests that over 1.4 million UK households will face the prospect of higher interest rates when their fixed-rate mortgages come to an end this year, alongside the impact of the ongoing cost of living crisis. ...