'Gloom lifting' for family budgets

Updated

The pressure on household finances has eased to its weakest levels in three years, in a sign that the "gloom is lifting", a report has found.

Hopes that families' budgets may be entering "a period of relative calm", came from a renewed increase in people's take-home pay as well as a perception that the rise in living costs is easing, according to financial information company Markit, which compiled the research.
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