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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...
09 November 2018
GDP rose by 0.6% in Q3 2018 from the previous quarter, in line with the consensus view and the Bank of England’s estimate published in their latest Inflation Report. This is the strongest ris...
01 November 2018
UK gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 0.7% in the three months to August, unchanged from the upwardly revised previous three-month period (May-July). This was the joint highest growth rate since...
17 October 2018
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 2.4% on the previous year in September, down from the 2.7% rise reported in the previous month. This was below the consensus view, with expectations of inflation...
17 October 2018
The latest labour market data from the ONS showed that the number of people in work was little changed, the number of unemployed people decreased but the number of people aged from 16 to 64 years n...
11 September 2018
UK gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 0.6% in the three months to July, picking up from the 0.4% growth in Q2 2018. This was the highest growth rate since August 2017 (on a three-month rolling ba...
11 September 2018
The latest labour market data from the ONS showed that the number of people in work was little changed, the number of unemployed people decreased but the number of people aged from 16 to 64 years n...