Financial Indicators: Data from FTSE100, as well as oil prices and gold prices.
Documents to download
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Economic Indicators, January 2012 (753 KB, PDF)
The ONS revised up GDP growth in for Q3 2011 from 0.5% to 0.6%, although this stemmed from a downward revision to growth in the previous quarter from 0.1% to 0.0%. Despite Q3 figure being the largest quarterly increase in economic output in a year, the ONS said that growth was concentrated in a few areas of the economy and was not broad-based. Available indicators for Q4 2011 point toward a slowdown in GDP growth, with manufacturing output contracting and service sector growth slowing.
Documents to download
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Economic Indicators, January 2012 (753 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.
