06 January 2020 Election Result Nudges UK Business Confidence Higher: Services PMI

The UK services sector provided proof on Monday of some life being left in the economy at year-end when the IHS Markit PMI was revised higher for the December month, after output stablised followin…

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02 January 2020 UK Manufacturing Desperately Seeks a Boris Bounce

The decisive message sent by the UK electorate in mid-December has yet to register in the economy, with the latest numbers out of the manufacturing sector showing production decreased at the sharpe…

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02 January 2020 Eurozone Manufacturing Sector Remains 'Grim' at Start of 2020

The latest set of manufacturing data out of the Eurozone confirms a poor end to a bad year for manufacturers on the continent.

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18 December 2019 UK Inflation Beats Expectations but 2020 Bank of England Rate Cut Cannot Be Ruled Out

UK inflation figures for November beat market expectations on Wednesday but consumer price growth is still running below the Bank of England (BoE) target while recent economic and political develop…

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17 December 2019 UK Jobs Data Leaves Economists Weighing Prospect of Bank of England Interest Rate Cut

The UK unemployment rate fell back to a 1970s era low in the recent quarter but the jobs market has already seen its best days for the current cycle, official data released Tuesday suggests, and ec…

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16 December 2019 UK Economy Seen Flat-lining in Final Quarter as BoE Rate Cut Draws Closer

  The UK economy is likely to have stalled in the final quarter, according to the latest IHS Markit PMI surveys, which suggested both manufacturing and services industries shrank in December an…

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10 December 2019 UK Economy Stalls in October, Sees Weak Start to Final Quarter 

The UK economy stalled in October during what was a weak start to the final quarter that could now mean its all but certain that growth for the 2019 year overall will be less than an already-downbe…

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