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West Midlands Economic Impact Monitor
Oct 2025
Insights West Midlands
Working with City Redi, this monitor aims to pull together information across regional partners to understand local economic developments and disseminate local research. Where possible it will utilise all forms of quantitative and qualitative intelligence.
International instability, uncertainty and protectionism continued to impact not just the global economy but the UK economy, with current and future business activity in decline, as a result of reduced confidence in the consumer markets globally. Prices continue to rise nationally, with consumer price inflation CPI rising 3.8% in the year to September 2025.
