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This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … CBI Quarterly Industrial Trends Survey (Oct.) …
20th October 2008
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Public Finances & M4 Money Supply (Sep.) …
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … From financial to economic crisis …
If we are right in thinking that the UK economy will flirt with deflation next year, conventional bond yields could drop to very low levels. … Bond market’s inflation expectations set to fall …
16th October 2008
What a tumultuous few weeks! Policymakers around the world have stepped in to bail out the banking system, hopefully averting full-scale financial system meltdown, and UK interest rates have been cut by 50bps for the first time in seven years. But, as …
The historic measures announced by the UK government and policymakers around the world appear to have avoided a full-scale financial meltdown. But the response of the markets has been fairly muted, with interbank interest rates so far falling only …
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … UK Labour Market Data (Aug./Sep.) …
15th October 2008
14th October 2008
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … UK Consumer Prices (Sep.) …
13th October 2008
With banks’ balance sheets under pressure, UK bank lending is set to rise more slowly, if not fall outright. This will have significant adverse effects on the UK economy, which may already be in recession. Indeed, we now expect the economy to contract in …
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … MPC finally out of the blocks …
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12th October 2008
10th October 2008
The recently announced Government measures to support the UK banking sector may have little immediate effect on the public finances. But the downturn in the wider economy is already set to push public borrowing up to historically high levels. … The fiscal …
At last, some rare good news for the housing market. Together, the bank recapitalisation plan and the 0.5% cut in official policy rates suggest that policy makers have now realised that drastic action is required to resolve the current bank crisis. We do …
8th October 2008
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … UK Trade (Aug.) …
Today’s 50bps cut in UK interest rates, alongside similar moves from a number of other central banks, is likely to mark the start of a phase of aggressive monetary easing. We continue to expect UK interest rates to drop to just 2.5% or below next year. … …
The Government’s reported plans to inject additional capital into some of the UK’s largest banks are unlikely to prevent a major slowdown in the growth of bank lending to households and companies from contributing to a deep and prolonged recession in the …
7th October 2008
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … UK Ind. Production & BCC Survey (Aug./Q3) …
6th October 2008
The economic news took a backseat over the last month as the financial crisis intensified. The interbank markets froze, a number of banks on both sides of the Atlantic failed and governments stepped in to clean up the mess. Nonetheless, the UK economy …
Recent developments in the UK and global economies and banking sectors suggest that UK interest rates are going to have to fall even further than we had thought. We now expect rates to fall to 2.5% next year, with a distinct possibility that they return …
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Rates heading towards 3.5%, if not lower …
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … UK CIPS/Markit Report on Services & HEW (Sep./Q2) …
2nd October 2008
The dramatic events of the past few weeks have changed the debate from whether the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) will cut interest rates this year to whether it will cut them in October or November. The debate is finely balanced and the deciding factor …
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This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Nationwide House Prices (September) …
1st October 2008
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30th September 2008
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29th September 2008
The nationalisation of Bradford & Bingley is another blow to the government’s already dire fiscal position. It also highlights just how vulnerable banks are to future mortgage losses, which are likely to result from a 35% fall in house prices and a rise …
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28th September 2008
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … UK CBI Distributive Trades Survey (Sep.) …
24th September 2008
Recent figures on the public finances, coupled with growing concerns over the public cost of measures to address the banking crisis, have led to major fears over the UK’s fiscal position. But our forecasts for the likely path of the economy over the next …
22nd September 2008
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Momentous events darken economic outlook …
The surprising strength of the official retail sales data in recent months continues to contrast with the much more downbeat tone of the survey evidence and the trading reports from retailers themselves. What’s more, it seems unlikely that consumers are …
18th September 2008
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Retail Sales, Public Finances & M4 (Aug.) …
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17th September 2008
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15th September 2008
This report is only available as a PDF. Click to download. … Have the markets become complacent on inflation? …
