On today’s episode of the Ian King Business podcast, economist Simon French looks into how the unusually warm weather in September led to a larger-than-expected fall in retail sales.
Elsewhere, consumer confidence in the UK has suffered its biggest monthly drop since March 2020 – the month of the first Covid-19 lockdown.
Ian also looks at UK government borrowing, and the artificial intelligence company behind the chatbot ChatGPT is reportedly in talks with investors about a possible sale of employee shares.
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