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A better way to measure the recovery?

A new type of recession requires new tools to measure it. It has become clear that the activity PMIs will be of little use in gauging the extent and pace of the recovery from the coronavirus crisis. Our new “Capital Economics BICS Indicator”, which is based on experimental data published by the ONS, may prove an indispensable tool in measuring the recovery in close to real time.

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