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UK Voters Call For Lower Taxes & Energy Bills As Economic Concerns Grow Via CityAM, According to a new poll, most British voters want lower energy costs and tax cuts to support growth. A large majority rated the UK economy as poor and showed little faith in current progress. Business leaders are also increasingly pessimistic, citing geopolitics and rising costs. British voters want Rachel Reeves to cut taxes and reduce energy costs in order to focus on growth, as a majority of people felt the UK economy was “poor”, new research has shown. Polling by Freshwater...

Buffett Cash Hoard: Why $397 Billion Sits On The Sidelines Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, $397 billion. That’s how much “Buffett cash” now sits on Berkshire Hathaway’s balance sheet after Greg Abel’s first quarter as CEO. Warren Buffett left $373 billion behind when he stepped down at the end of 2025. Three months later, after Abel’s debut earnings report on Saturday, the hoard had grown by another $24 billion. The figure is bigger than the GDP of Hong Kong or Norway. It exceeds the market value of every American corporation except...

2026 Rate-Hike Expectations Plummet After Cooler-Than-Expected PPI Following yesterday's cooling (in-line) consumer price inflation data (driven in large part by energy deflation), US producer prices were expected to rebound modestly in July from a 0.3% MoM decline (headline) in June. Instead, headline Producer Prices were unchanged MoM (cooler than expected), pushing the annual change down from +5.5% to +4.7% YoY... Source: Bloomberg Core PPI (Ex Food and Energy) also printed cooler than expected (+0.2% MoM vs +0.3% MoM), dragging Core PPI YoY down to +4.2%... Final demand services: Prices for final demand services...