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Inflation data out tomorrow – are you seeing inflation eat away at your business/industry?

ended 18. February 2026

The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation data is out tomorrow at 7am. Make sure you set your alarms early to be up for it. But in preparation for tomorrow's release, how is inflation affecting your business?

  • Is inflation eating away at your businesses or industry? Please provide specific examples.
  • How crippling is inflation to small businesses?
  • How important is it to you that inflation comes down.

Responses before tomorrow 7am.

2 responses from the Newspage community

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David Belle
Founder and Trader at Fink Money
Inflation dropping to 3% will trigger high fives on Downing Street but let's not kid ourselves, the economy is still in a mess. What's crippling is that the tax bands have been frozen while inflation has surged. For small businesses, the employers' National Insurance and minimum wage rises have been economic suicide. Then there's the business rates increases. If you were to model out the worst structure for an economy, you would have the UK's right now. Inflation dropping is a positive but the wider fiscal backdrop remains fundamentally flawed.
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Taryn Lee Johnston
Owner at The FCM Group
Anyone who writes for a living will be thrilled to read this news. Within the publishing sector, everything has risen in price, from ink, paper and distribution costs, but the only thing that hasn't is the price of books. This makes it very hard for both publishers and authors to see a financial return on the weeks or months of work put into their books. The sector has been swimming upstream for a long time now but this drop in inflation may see some degree of normality resume if inflation continues to shift back to target.