UK inflation

Stood on her hind legs to greet any prospective owner who might approach her glass-doored kennel, Harriet is a black English cocker spaniel abandoned as a deepening cost-of-living crisis pushes growing numbers of Britons to part with their…

<!-- -->Rishi Sunak said that immediate tax cuts risked extending the ongoing economic crisis. (File)London: The governing Conservative Party can "kiss goodbye" to winning the next UK general election, due around 2024, unless soaring…

The Bank of England raised interest rates in the biggest hike in 27 years on Thursday in an attempt to smother surging inflation on track to top 13 per cent, even as it warned a long recession is coming. Reeling from a surge in energy…

LONDON: Britain's new finance minister, Iraqi-born Nadhim Zahawi, has inherited a cost-of-living crisis that risks pushing the UK economy into recession. The former education minister was parachuted into the Treasury late Tuesday after…

Every Monday, Mint’s Plain Facts section features key data releases and events to look for in the coming week. The International Day of Yoga will be observed globally this week. Days will start getting shorter with…

A day after the Federal Reserve hiked interest rates to a historic high, US stocks plunged as more central banks around the world hiked interest rates to curb inflation. The Dow Jones Industrial Average sank over 741…

McColl's a British store chain with a network of more than 1,100 convenience stores and newsagents across the United Kingdom has gone bust in face of rising inflation. This has put 16000 jobs at risk. The company is…

<!-- -->Higher March inflation data does not yet fully reflect the fall out from Ukraine warInflation has surged sharply in March, according to the latest data from India, the United Kingdom and the United States, but that does not…

British inflation shot up faster than expected last month to hit a new 30-year high, worsening a historic squeeze on household finances that finance minister Rishi Sunak is under pressure to ease in a budget update later on Wednesday.The…

Every Monday, Mint’s Plain Facts section features key data releases and events to watch out for in the coming week. The earnings season for the September-ended quarter is well under way, with top steelmaker JSW Steel and…