{"id":248689,"date":"2025-10-24T14:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/248689\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T14:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T14:00:08","slug":"uk-economy-needs-growth-friendly-policy-money-distilled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/248689\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Economy Needs Growth Friendly Policy: Money Distilled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">  Welcome to the multi-award-winning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/account\/newsletters\/money-distilled?source=NLintro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Money Distilled<\/a> newsletter. I\u2019m <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/authors\/AV8F0VYKcHY\/john-stepek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">John Stepek<\/a>. Every week day I look at the biggest stories in markets and economics, and explain what it all means for your money.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">It\u2019s been a decent week for UK stocks and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-10-24\/uk-private-sector-gains-pace-as-factories-bounce-back-pmi-shows\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">solid week for economic news<\/a>. We had weaker-than-feared inflation earlier in the week, and now we\u2019ve had stronger-than-feared readings on retail sales, consumer confidence and business activity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to the multi-award-winning Money Distilled newsletter. I\u2019m John Stepek. Every week day I look at the biggest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9190,28,28479,20235,81162,2402,1150,112,1343,7600,923,1049,1432],"class_list":["post-248689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-markets","tag-banking","tag-business","tag-capital-gains","tag-consumer-confidence","tag-ftse-100-index","tag-inflation","tag-london","tag-markets","tag-policy","tag-retail","tag-stocks","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}