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More than 40% of mortgage products were pulled after the Chancellor’s Budget triggered a slump in the pound and fears of interest rate hikes. The average two-year fixed mortgage rate is now close to 6%

The chancellor will accelerate the publication of his medium-term fiscal plan later this month, according to reports

Tactless jokes and half-arsed platitudes made up chancellor’s vapid Tory conference speech

The iShares MSCI United Kingdom ETF (NYSE: EWU) and the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY) both traded higher by more than 2% each on Monday after the U.K.

Sir Charlie Bean, said the chancellor’s U-turn will not be enough to calm down the financial markets

In 1981 Thatcher took the drastic but successful step of increasing taxes by 2% of GDP to tackle interest rates and inflation. But Truss has just done a reverse-Thatcher, says Oliver Hartwich

From a strictly fiscal perspective, the government’s decision to U-turn on the cut to the 45p top rate of income tax is essentially meaningless. What was a £45 billion tax-cutting budget that sunk the pound, set off gilts and required an emergency intervention by the Bank of England is now…

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.

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.

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”.

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