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This year’s Pre-Budget Report on December 5th will be an uncomfortable experience for Gordon Brown. Having been proved right on the economy last year, this time he will have to admit he has got it hopelessly wrong. Not only has GDP grown at little more …
24th November 2005
The slowdown in household income growth that has driven a large part of the recent spending downturn has come as something of a surprise. Particularly puzzling is the 12% or so rise in the amount of tax deducted from household earned income. Given that …
23rd November 2005
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … UK MPC Minutes (Nov.) …
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … What accounts for the UK economic slowdown? …
22nd November 2005
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … UK CBI Monthly Trends (Nov.) …
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … MPC’s excuses should soon wear thin …
21st November 2005
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Sterling slump won’t stop interest rates falling …
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … UK Public Finances (Oct.) …
18th November 2005
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Rise in discretionary income unlikely to prompt spending recovery …
17th November 2005
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Retail slowdown might be past the worst (Nov 05) …
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … UK Retail Sales (Oct.) …
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Bank of England Inflation Report (Nov.) …
16th November 2005
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … UK Labour Market Data (Sep./Oct.) …
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Has the economy’s supply potential fallen? …
15th November 2005
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … UK Consumer Prices (Oct.) …
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … More chance of a dovish surprise …
14th November 2005
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Weak activity to prompt New Year rate cuts …
10th November 2005
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … UK BRC Retail Sales Monitor (Oct.) …
8th November 2005
One of the surprising elements of the recent slowdown in the economy is that consumer confidence has held up rather more strongly than most other indicators of consumer activity. Even after October’s drop, confidence is still broadly in line with its …
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Stronger housing market won’t prompt spending rebound …
7th November 2005
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … UK Halifax House Price Index (Oct.) …
4th November 2005
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … UK Personal Insolvencies (Q3) …
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … UK Personal insolvencies (Q3) …
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … UK CIPS Report on Services (Oct.) …
3rd November 2005
One of the factors behind the reluctance of the Monetary Policy Committee to cut interest rates further in response to the apparent sharp slowdown in the economy over the last year is a belief amongst some members that the official GDP figures have …
2nd November 2005
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … UK CBI Distributive Trades (Oct.) …
1st November 2005
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … UK Nationwide House Prices (Oct.) …
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … UK CIPS Report on Manufacturing (Oct.) …
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … UK Core inflation may have peaked …
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … UK Mortgage Lending (Sep.) …
31st October 2005
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … UK Consumer Credit (Sep.) & Confidence (Oct.) …
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Weak economy should limit further bond sell-off …
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … UK CBI Quarterly Industrial Trends Survey (Q4/Oct.) …
26th October 2005
Bad debt is on the rise, with households finally bowing under the pressure of their £1 trillion debt mountain. So far, the increase has been relatively modest. But over the next two or three years, we expect to see a growing number of households …
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Rate cut expectations can keep growing …
25th October 2005
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Core inflation may have peaked …
24th October 2005
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … UK Preliminary GDP (Q3) …
21st October 2005
