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21 July 2019
New buyer enquiries improved somewhat in June following disappointing results for almost a year, according to the latest RICS Residential Market Survey. Interestingly, whilst a number of their meas...
18 July 2019
Key data for June 2019:
Visa's UK Consumer Spending Index recorded the weakest first half since 2012, with expenditure down by 1.1% in H1 compared to last year....
18 July 2019
Retail sales (value, non-seasonally adjusted, excluding fuel) rose by 4.0% year-on-year in June 2019, according to the latest figures from the ONS. This is up on the 1.9% rise in the previous month...
17 July 2019
The headline Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 2.0% in June, year-on-year, unchanged from the previous month and in line with expectations.
The Consumer Prices Index including owner occupie...
16 July 2019
The latest labour market data from the ONS showed the number of people in work continued to increase in the three months to May, while the number of unemployed people and the number of people aged...
10 July 2019
UK gross domestic product (GDP) returned to growth in May, up by 0.3% month-on-month, as production picked up again. The bounce back followed the temporary shutdown of car factories ahead of the UK...
03 July 2019
GDP rose by 0.5% in Q1 2019 from the previous quarter, unrevised from the previous estimate. This followed a 0.2% rise in Q4 2018.
Compared with the same quarter a year ago, the UK econom...
13 June 2019
House price growth continued to accelerate in May according to the latest data from the Halifax, up 5.2% (quarterly, non-seasonally adjusted, year-on-year). This is against a weak comparison a year...
10 May 2019
GDP accelerated by 0.5% in Q1 2019 compared to the previous quarter, driven by a strong boost in manufacturing output as companies stockpiled ahead of the original Brexit deadline.
Compar...
05 April 2019
Retail Economics attended Retail Week Live 2019 recently, with chief executive Richard Lim chairing the General Counsel day. Retail leaders gathered to discuss how to grapple the pressures facing r...
30 January 2019
The debate and votes in the House of Commons yesterday gave no new certainty to the Brexit process, but they did increase the chances of a disorderly withdrawal from the EU on 29 March.
A...
29 November 2018
The need for UK retailers to be ‘Brexit-ready’ is becoming ever more urgent.
On 24 October 2018, Squire Patton Boggs and Retail Economics hosted more than 50 meetings between...
21 November 2018
Levels of interest in Black Friday appear to have risen modestly on the previous year. However, our research suggests that consumers will make more considered purchases that appear more planned tha...
14 November 2018
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 2.4% on the previous year in October, unchanged from the previous month. This was below the consensus view, with expectations of inflation rising to 2.5%.
...13 November 2018
The latest labour market data from the ONS showed the number of people in work and the number of unemployed people both increased but the number of people aged from 16 to 64 years not working and n...