UK services firms raise prices at fastest rate since May amid fuel surge - Yahoo Finance UK
Key takeaway
UK services PMI fell to 52.1 in September — still expanding, but at the slowest pace since May
- Step 1 · The triggerUK services PMI slows to 52.1 as Middle East-linked fuel and energy costs surge, forcing fastest output-price rises since May
- Step 2 · Knock-onservices firms' input costs accelerate faster than selling prices, compressing gross margins and triggering defensive cost-cutting
- Step 3 · Knock-onAI-enabled workforce reduction becomes structural, flattening labour demand and breaking the wage-price Phillips Curve linkage
- Step 4 · Knock-onthe BoE's services-inflation forecast is invalidated, forcing a hawkish repricing of the rate path and SME lending spreads
- Step 5 · Reaches youUK SMEs on floating-rate facilities or energy-exposed cost bases face a double squeeze — dearer borrowing and unrecovered input costs
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Source: Google News UK Business
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