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Pound recovers but remains at low levels – how to assess the long-term value of sterling

The pound has recovered from a recent record dip after the chancellor’s mini-budget announcement. But it is still at low levels versus many other currencies.

The Conversation

Mini-budget: lessons from the UK's long history of economic crises

It was a mini-budget with a major impact. Shortly after the UK chancellor announced his plans for a “new era” full of tax cuts, there were dramatic falls in the pound, a nervous response from mortgage lenders and an urgent intervention from the Bank of England.

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Why UK final-salary pensions may now be unpayable without state support

When long-dated UK government bonds fell sharply following the consistent criticism of the new economic measures laid out by the UK government, it forced the Bank of England to intervene to prevent an “unwarranted tightening of financing conditions and a reduction of the flow of credit to the real economy”.

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What is the impact of 45p tax U-turn on markets and mortgages?

Kwasi Kwarteng and Liz Truss will be hoping move reverses some of effects of mini-budget

The Guardian - UK

UK economy not out of woods despite tax U-turn

London (AFP) - Britain's debt-fuelled economy remains threatened by recession and the pound mired by trouble despite the government of new Prime Minister Liz Truss performing a swift tax U-turn.

AFP

How do interest rates affect inflation?

Borrowing costs at their highest level in 14 years

The Independent UK

What is inflation and what is its current rate in the UK and Europe?

UK inflation fell this week as fuel prices dropped

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Soaring costs force firms to increase prices - report

Quarterly business report from chamber of commerce says the proportion of firms experiencing an increase in domestic sales fell by seven per cent

Birmingham Post

Why the UK pension system nearly collapsed last week (apart from Truss’ stupidity)

If you’re stupid enough to cause a big spike in the cost of borrowing by your government, you end up inflicting all sorts of damage.

Crikey

Alan Kohler: Past budgets and tax cuts are a foreign country

When LP Hartley wrote “the past is a foreign country: they do things differently there”, as the first line of his novel The Go-Between, he was on about

The New Daily

Pensions watchdog called in to emergency talks on UK market turmoil

First time regulator drafted to high-level meetings on measures to tackle meltdown that followed mini-budget

The Guardian - UK

UK’s ‘pro-growth’ government has only made a recession more likely

Thanks to Truss and Kwarteng, the country is now far riskier for the investors who finance our trade and budget deficits

The Guardian - UK

Warning for Irish people with British pounds as paper £20 and £50 notes have lost status as money

The old notes cannot be spent in shops or used in business transactions and will not even be accepted by most banks

Irish Mirror

Liz Truss admits she should have done a 'better job' over Budget disaster

The Prime Minister refused to back down from her plan and failed eight times to rule out cutting benefits and the state - but admitted she has 'learned' from the market chaos

Daily Mirror

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Manchester Evening News

'It's a disgrace': The Manc holidaymakers, businesses and mortgage holders in 'fear and panic' over the pound's slump

A weak pound threatens to exacerbate the cost of living crisis and drive up the cost of mortgages and foreign holidays

The Guardian - UK

Ten days that shook the British political world: the inside story of Tory collapse

Last Friday, Liz Truss and her chancellor expected acclaim for their mini-budget. This weekend, she goes into her first Tory conference as leader – battling for survival

The National (Scotland)

How the Tories wrecked the economy in seven days

IT took Liz Truss’s Government just under a month to see the value of the pound drop to historic lows, the Bank of England being forced to step in…

The Guardian - UK

Labour will not waver from putting the UK economy on secure ground

The disastrous Conservative mini-budget has left the country in tatters. This government can no longer be trusted, says shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves

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The Guardian - UK

Trickle-down Truss is carrying on the dirty work of Thatcher, Blair and Osborne

Britain has endured 40 years of decline thanks to this faulty economic theory. Will Keir Starmer finally kill it off?, says Yanis Varoufakis, leader of MeRA25 in Greece’s parliament

AFP

UK housing market hit by budget fallout

London (AFP) - Britain's housing market has been rocked by the UK government's costly budget, as retail banks pull mortgage rates in anticipation of more costly products, sparking fears of tumbling home prices.

Liverpool Echo

Can I still use £20 notes? What to do with paper money that is no longer legal tender

The deadline to use paper £20 and £50 notes by was Friday

Financial Times

Inside the breakdown of the UK’s mortgage machine

Market turmoil sparked by mini-budget saw banks scrambling and 1,688 home loans pulled from shelves

The Guardian - US

How Liz Truss plunged the UK to the brink of recession in just one month

The new prime minister began September promising a ‘new era’ for Britain. One economic crisis later, she has delivered

The Conversation

Bank of England bonds rescue has two ugly implications: more inflation and an even weaker pound

With UK government bonds and sterling both falling hard in recent days, the Bank of England has been forced to step in. Only a few months after it started tightening monetary policy to fight inflation by raising benchmark interest rates and ending its programme to “create” money through quantitative easing…

The Conversation

Three reasons a weak pound is bad news for the environment

The day before new UK chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget plan for economic growth, a pound would buy you about $1.13. After financial markets rejected the plan, the pound suddenly sunk to around $1.07. Though it has since rallied thanks to major intervention from the Bank of England, the currency remains…

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