UK retail sales for the month of October confirmed that the UK continues to spend earnings on goods, as opposed to spending it on service-based activities, a trend that will likely continue given N…
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The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) measure of inflation in the UK was 0.7% higher year-on-year in October 2020, up from 0.5% in September and a beat on consensus market expectations for a reading of 0…
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The UK and EU could sign a post-Brexit trade deal as early as next week, according to reports. However, contradictory briefings suggest negotiations can really run down to the wire and that the rea…
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The UK economy has shrunk by a greater amount than the United States and its major peers in the Eurozone, but the deeper decline could be matched by a greater vaccine-fuelled recovery in 2021 accor…
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The UK economy kept one foot in a proverbial grave last quarter when a record rebound proved unable to backfill the hole dug by the government in its coronavirus containment efforts, although even …
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UK labour market statistics released on Tuesday reveal the economy shed 164K jobs in the three months to September, a figure that was worse than the -148K a survey of economists were expecting.
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The U.S.labour market defied expectations on Friday when Bureau of Labor Statistics data revealed further job gains that helped push the unemployment rate a full percentage point lower in October, …
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