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This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Twin inflation dangers don’t threaten benign outlook …
20th January 2003
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Halifax garage music leads markets a merry dance …
13th January 2003
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … UK rates on hold, but cuts will come …
9th January 2003
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … A soggy start …
6th January 2003
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … soggy start …
Official and market forecasts of a steady acceleration in the growth of the UK economy over the next few years rely on a gradual and orderly unwinding of the imbalances built up in the last five. But such a benign scenario is looking increasingly …
27th December 2002
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Problems ahead for Britain’s retailers …
23rd December 2002
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Interest rates to fall in 2003 as the housing market stalls …
17th December 2002
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Trade back in the headlines …
16th December 2002
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … It’s the rich what gets the pain …
9th December 2002
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … A worrying trend at the Treasury …
2nd December 2002
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Mervyn King’s appointment slightly hawkish …
28th November 2002
The upward revisions to the Chancellor’s forecasts for public borrowing are rather bigger than we and most forecasters had anticipated. Borrowing is now expected to be £9bn higher at £20bn this year, while next year’s forecast has risen by £11bn to £24bn. …
27th November 2002
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … No last minute cheer for the Chancellor …
25th November 2002
This year’s Pre-Budget Report will be very different from the last few, in which Mr Brown has taken advantage of strong economic growth and falling borrowing to make mid-year tax cuts. This time, borrowing is rising more quickly than expected and the …
19th November 2002
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … An over-optimistic Old Lady …
17th November 2002
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Interest rates – why not and what next? …
11th November 2002
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Rates stay at 4% – next move depends on global economy …
7th November 2002
The last year or so has seen an almost unprecedented degree of unity between members of the UK’s Monetary Policy Committee. Not only have interest rates themselves been left on hold for 11 months, but there has been very little disagreement amongst …
6th November 2002
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Rates to fall to 3.75% …
4th November 2002
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … It’s close, but rates will probably fall …
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … More on taxes and the economic cycle …
29th October 2002
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Equities’ slide points to spending slowdown …
28th October 2002
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Tax hike stories overdone …
25th October 2002
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Borrowing will overshoot, but taxes shouldn’t rise …
21st October 2002
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … No cut...but the odds have shortened …
8th October 2002
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Fiscal worries return …
7th October 2002
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Return to balanced growth not yet assured …
30th September 2002
Market participants and policymakers are concerned that a military conflict with Iraq could push the US and world economies back towards recession. History, however, suggests that wars have tended to boost demand and activity, not depress it. … The …
27th September 2002
With the issue of UK entry into the single European currency likely to come to the fore again over the next year or so, whether the exchange rate is at an appropriate level for entry will be a critical question. … Sterling - still too high after all these …
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Outlook bleak for manufacturers …
23rd September 2002
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Interest rates to end next year at 4% …
19th September 2002
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Public sector pay rises are not a problem …
16th September 2002
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … UK growth may disappoint, US-style …
14th September 2002
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Surveys warn of job losses on the way …
9th September 2002
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Sir Andrew Large appointed Deputy Governor of the Bank …
3rd September 2002
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … MPC to resist a cut for fear of exacerbating the imbalances …
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Consumers not throwing the towel in just yet …
2nd September 2002
The long-awaited slowdown in consumer spending is finally underway. For companies closely connected with consumers, this is likely to mean a significant change from the exceptionally buoyant conditions of recent years. … The consumer slowdown – who will …
28th August 2002
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … A delicate re-balancing act …
26th August 2002
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Rate expectations on the up, but they won’t go far …
19th August 2002
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Jubilee delays the recovery …
12th August 2002
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … America’s weakness is bad news for the UK …
5th August 2002
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … No rate rise from the MPC – nor will there be one this year …
1st August 2002
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Rates to remain at 4% - for the rest of 2002 …
29th July 2002
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Q2’s growth rate will not be sustained …
Structural differences between the UK and continental European housing markets are a major barrier to Britain adopting the euro. Because of the large proportion of variable-rate mortgages in the UK, and its high level of home ownership, Britain is …
26th July 2002
For the second time in five years, monetary policy has saved the world from what looked like certain recession. If this signals that monetary policy has become more effective in smoothing the path of the global economy, then the implications are …
23rd July 2002
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … The next move in interest rates could be down …
22nd July 2002
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … No change to the spending increases – or the risks …
15th July 2002
