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This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Brown threatens Bank’s principal policy tool …
14th April 2003
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Rates to fall to 3.5% next month and 3% by the end of the year …
10th April 2003
Never has there been such a contrast between the thickness of the Budget Red Book and the thinness of the Budget proposals. Indeed, from a macro perspective, the measures added up to nothing at all. … Budget 2003: Gambling on …
9th April 2003
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Growth forecasts come tumbling down …
7th April 2003
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Seeds of spending slowdown have been sown …
31st March 2003
In a few months, the Treasury will complete its assessment of the five economic tests for UK adoption of the single currency. Should the tests be passed, a referendum could follow in the autumn and we could be in the euro within two years. … The five …
30th March 2003
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … The letter will have to wait another year …
24th March 2003
The recent economic history of the UK is about to be rewritten, and it could make gloomy reading when National Statistics begins using a new method for calculating GDP growth from September. Potentially large downward revisions are expected from the …
19th March 2003
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Economic weakness will drive the markets … but not yet …
17th March 2003
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … The oil price – not so significant as it was …
14th March 2003
Gordon Brown’s seventh Budget on April 9th will be his most challenging yet. For the second time in six months he will have to admit that his previous forecasts for the economy were too optimistic and that, if left unchecked, public borrowing will …
13th March 2003
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Rates will be cut again soon … all the way down to 3% …
10th March 2003
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … UK interest rates to end the year at 3% …
6th March 2003
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Consumer confidence & interest rates: 1998 re-visited? …
3rd March 2003
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Housing downturn underway …
24th February 2003
The Government is understating its financial liabilities by routing a growing proportion of new spending on public services through public-private partnerships (PPP) and the private finance initiative (PFI). By shifting the capital expenditure required …
20th February 2003
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Minuting a king’s decision …
16th February 2003
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Interest rates - why now and what next? …
10th February 2003
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … UK interest rates - risks to our forecast shift to the downside …
6th February 2003
The striking thing about the recent renewed slump in the UK stockmarket is that it has not, for once, been driven by comparable weakness on Wall Street. Indeed, the UK market has significantly underperformed the US market in recent months, falling some 5% …
29th January 2003
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 …
