Financial Indicators: Data from FTSE100, as well as oil prices and gold prices.
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Economic Indicators, June 2012 (1 MB, PDF)
The revised estimate of quarterly GDP showed that the economy had contracted by 0.3% in Q1 2012, following a 0.3% decline in Q4 2011. A major contributor to the contraction in GDP was the construction sector, in which output decreased by 4.8%. Several surveys of sentiment among manufacturing businesses have reported big falls in confidence in the past month. Meanwhile, some labour market indicators have been more positive, with employment rising by 105,000 in the most recent quarter, the biggest quarterly rise since March 2011.
Documents to download
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Economic Indicators, June 2012 (1 MB, 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.
