What do households want from the UK Budget?

7 August 2026 Chart 1 Total assets of credit institutions headquartered in the EU (EUR billions) Source: ECBNote: Data for all reference periods relate to the EU27. Due to the unavailability of Q1 2026 data for Denmark at the time of publication, Denmark’s Q4 2025 figures have been used as a proxy in the calculation…

Public AI benchmarks steer research and allocate investments. They are therefore market designs. Public examples can reveal the process behind a private final test, while a finite public score cannot cover a broad task space inherent to general intelligence. I show how both gaps become profitable when scores move capital and how targeted effort erodes…

Keynote speech by Frank Elderson, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB and Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board of the ECB, at the 7th World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists Lisbon, 2 July 2026 In my speech today, I will talk about two factors that have recently contributed to inflation volatility and economic…

Brown Brothers Harriman’s (BBH) Elias Haddad describes United Kingdom (UK) June labor data as soft, with unemployment stuck at 4.9% and private sector regular pay growth slowing to 2.8% year-on-year. Haddad judges current market pricing of 60 bps of Bank of England (BoE) hikes over 12 months as too aggressive, yet believes the UK’s favorable…

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The British Pound trades just short of 1.3550 against the Dollar on Tuesday, holding inside Monday’s range after a peak short of 1.3600 carried it to its strongest level since early May. That leaves close to 300 pips of recovery from the base just short of 1.3300 built in the first week of August. The…