Financial Indicators: Data from FTSE100, as well as oil prices and gold prices.
Documents to download
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Economic Indicators, September 2011 (770 KB, PDF)
Weak data over the past month has raised concerns over the health of the UK economy. Surveys pointed to declining demand in the manufacturing and services sectors, while a sharp fall in new orders was recorded in the construction sector. Unemployment rose over the most recent quarter, and the ONS left unchanged, at 0.2%, its initial estimate of GDP growth in Q2 2011 (compared with Q1 2011). Weak economic data in the US and eurozone economies only add to the increasingly pessimistic outlook for the UK.
Documents to download
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Economic Indicators, September 2011 (770 KB, PDF)
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Business and Consumer Confidence: Information on business and consumer confidence surveys, which is generally released ahead of official statistical data and can indicate changes to the economic outlook as well as turning points in the economic cycle.
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This is a purely statistical note on public sector borrowing (the budget deficit), public sector debt and government debt interest payments.
