However, the boom risks creating logjams and inflation due to record-low numbers of construction workers, as well as a shortage of materials. The UK has 40% fewer welders, assemblers and routine ...

Those pay increases suggested consumers were in a position to help drive prices and growth, supporting the inflation trend. The bank’s first rate hike in 17 years was followed by two more in the ...

Taiwan's tech-centred, export-dependent economy has been supported by demand from the artificial intelligence (AI) boom, which has ... price increases may push up inflation, uncertainties in ...

President Donald Trump promised during the 2024 campaign to turbocharge the economy, declaring he'd work a "miracle" that would bring about "extraordinary" boom ... to tame inflation and ignite ...

But a boom in private investment remains elusive ... capacity remained stagnant around 74-74.2% in 2024-25. Retail inflation was at a five-month low of 4.3% last month, vindicating the RBI ...

NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey says the state must prioritise growth in 2025.Credit: Sam Mooy “The challenges around a once-in-a-generation inflation crisis are giving way to the need to rebuild ...

He placed blame for inflation that has been stubbornly sticky and shows signs of going back up in his first six weeks in office at the feet of former President Joe Biden but said the economy will ...

As inflation took off in 2022 and the RBA started ... and all available evidence suggests a full-blown boom is unlikely. Economists have cautioned that some of the strength in spending towards ...