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This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Further rate cuts still on the cards …
7th August 2003
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Bond sell-off not underpinned by fundamentals …
4th August 2003
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Strong borrowing doesn’t rule out further rate cuts …
Households have been building up debt at ever increasing rates over the past few years, spurred on by low interest rates and rising house prices. The average household now has debts totalling about £45,000, equivalent to 130% of its income. … The Debt …
28th July 2003
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … The consumer returns, but not for long …
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Price pressures ease further …
21st July 2003
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Beware of the cautious consumer …
14th July 2003
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … On the way to 3% …
10th July 2003
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Why wait? …
7th July 2003
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Fed’s caution won’t stop UK interest rates falling …
30th June 2003
The Treasury’s assessment of the five economic tests to determine whether the UK should adopt the euro has had an unexpected benefit – five ideas for reform, admittedly not all new, to improve the efficiency of the UK economy. The Treasury’s assessment of …
27th June 2003
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Spending’s slowing, but there’s no sign of the cavalry …
23rd June 2003
In his speech on the assessment of the economic tests for UK membership of the euro, the Chancellor confirmed the Treasury’s second worst-kept secret too – that the UK will adopt the European harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP) as its targeted …
16th June 2003
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … No euro – and the dole queues are lengthening …
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Luke-warm assessment belies friendly rhetoric …
9th June 2003
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … If not now then when? …
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … MPC will cut rates later this year …
5th June 2003
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Closer than it looks …
2nd June 2003
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Hawks chase their tails …
27th May 2003
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … The door’s still open …
19th May 2003
Now that the UK has decided not to adopt the euro, attention will turn to the implications of this decision. Many studies in the last year or so have concluded that the UK has already missed out on a large chunk of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). This …
12th May 2003
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Goodbye to the pro-growth MPC? …
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Don’t give up on lower rates …
8th May 2003
Today’s decision to leave interest rates unchanged presumably reflected a belief amongst MPC members that the drop in the exchange rate will do their job for them. This view is supported by some model-based estimates of the impact of exchange rate …
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Growth downgrade to tip balance towards rate cut …
5th May 2003
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Sterling creeps back to haunt the Old Lady …
28th April 2003
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … It’s not the war, stupid …
21st April 2003
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … The Impact of Chain-Linking on UK GDP Growth …
15th April 2003
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … RPI RIP? …
14th April 2003
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Brown threatens Bank’s principal policy tool …
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Rates to fall to 3.5% next month and 3% by the end of the year …
10th April 2003
Never has there been such a contrast between the thickness of the Budget Red Book and the thinness of the Budget proposals. Indeed, from a macro perspective, the measures added up to nothing at all. … Budget 2003: Gambling on …
9th April 2003
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Growth forecasts come tumbling down …
7th April 2003
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Seeds of spending slowdown have been sown …
31st March 2003
In a few months, the Treasury will complete its assessment of the five economic tests for UK adoption of the single currency. Should the tests be passed, a referendum could follow in the autumn and we could be in the euro within two years. … The five …
30th March 2003
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … The letter will have to wait another year …
24th March 2003
The recent economic history of the UK is about to be rewritten, and it could make gloomy reading when National Statistics begins using a new method for calculating GDP growth from September. Potentially large downward revisions are expected from the …
19th March 2003
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Economic weakness will drive the markets … but not yet …
17th March 2003
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … The oil price – not so significant as it was …
14th March 2003
Gordon Brown’s seventh Budget on April 9th will be his most challenging yet. For the second time in six months he will have to admit that his previous forecasts for the economy were too optimistic and that, if left unchecked, public borrowing will …
13th March 2003
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Rates will be cut again soon … all the way down to 3% …
10th March 2003
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … UK interest rates to end the year at 3% …
6th March 2003
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Consumer confidence & interest rates: 1998 re-visited? …
3rd March 2003
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Housing downturn underway …
24th February 2003
The Government is understating its financial liabilities by routing a growing proportion of new spending on public services through public-private partnerships (PPP) and the private finance initiative (PFI). By shifting the capital expenditure required …
20th February 2003
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Minuting a king’s decision …
16th February 2003
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Interest rates - why now and what next? …
10th February 2003
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … UK interest rates - risks to our forecast shift to the downside …
6th February 2003
The striking thing about the recent renewed slump in the UK stockmarket is that it has not, for once, been driven by comparable weakness on Wall Street. Indeed, the UK market has significantly underperformed the US market in recent months, falling some 5% …
29th January 2003
