Inflation

EMPLOYERS AND pensions experts attacked a deal announced yesterday by the government and trades unions to raise public sector retirement ages as "a feeble climbdown", according to this morning's papers.

STANDARD LIFE insists its demutualisation proposals are on track, despite growing speculation wrangling with the Financial Services Authority (FSA) could force the society to delay its flotation, reports The Times .

Inflation and growth will dip in the near term, but both are likely to increase by the 2007-8 period according to the latest quarterly inflation report from the Bank of England.

Surging petrol prices are expected to drive inflation to a fresh eight-year high according to this morning's papers.

Inflation is being increasingly ignored by consumers looking for a home to park their savings, according to figures from National Savings & Investments.

THE EFFECT OF Hurricane Katrina continues according to today's papers with The Times reporting oil prices soaring to record levels yesterday as nervous traders ignored pledges of additional supplies from Saudi Arabia and instead worked feverishly to...

Annual inflation rose to 2.3% in July, the highest rate since the Office of National Statistics (ONS) started tracking it in 1997, it was revealed today.

AIM-LISTED oil companies are increasingly vulnerable to market fluctuations and local political upheaval, according to Ernst & Young's own oil index known as the Oil & Gas Eye, reports the Scotsman .

APPROXIMATELY 200,000 investors in M&G unit trusts will soon see annual management fees jump by 50%, says this morning's Daily Telegraph .

Migration from new EU member states in Eastern Europe has helped limit inflation in the UK over the past year, according to comments from Bank of England governor Mervyn King.