UK Labour Market (Aug./Sep. 2023)

Cooling labour market conditions appeared to start feeding through into an easing in wage growth in August. That supports our view that interest rates have peaked at 5.25%. But as we suspect wage growth will fall only slowly from here, interest rates will probably stay at their peak until late in 2024.  

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