Stockpiling to help Q1 GDP growth, but not by much

There is increasing survey evidence that businesses are stockpiling significant amounts of goods ahead of Brexit, which will probably provide some support to economic growth in Q1. But given that a large proportion of stocks are imported, the net boost to GDP growth will probably be small.

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