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UK GDP (Q4 2024 Final) & Retail Sales (Feb. 2025)

Today’s deluge of data confirmed that the economy was weak even before the full effects of higher business taxes are felt and that a high household saving rate continues to restrain GDP growth, although one hope is that households started to spend a little more freely in February.

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