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last 30 days

Headline Tightrope Score over the selected range, annotated with the events that moved it. Below, the four pillars name their dominant indicators today.

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Drivers

key drivers, by pillar

Each card names the indicator currently doing the heaviest lifting inside its pillar.

40%

Market Stability

28 Acute
  • 7d ▲ +0.2 better
  • 30d ▼ -4.5 worse

Driven by 10-year gilt yieldUK 10-year nominal zero-coupon gilt yield (BoE IUDMNZC, daily close).: 4.86%.

30%

Fiscal Room

50 Strained
  • 7d — 0.0
  • 30d ▼ -0.1 worse

Driven by Current-budget headroom (forecast)OBR forecast: surplus against the stability rule at the FY 2029/30 target year. Updated on each OBR EFO (twice-yearly).: GBP 23.6bn.

20%

Labour & Living-Standards Resilience

57 Strained
  • 7d — 0.0
  • 30d — 0.0

Driven by Economic inactivity rate, 16-64Share of 16-64 population neither in work nor looking for work.: 20.9%.

10%

Growth Delivery

41 Strained
  • 7d — 0.0
  • 30d — 0.0

Driven by Planning consents vs. baselineQuarterly residential planning-decisions-granted as a % of a self-declared estimated 2019 pre-COVID quarterly baseline of 11,500. The denominator is an estimate — archived MHCLG PDFs can tighten it; the caveat is intentional and surfaced here.: 62.6%.

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