Posts tagged 'UK GDP'

An Olympic bounce into a deleveraging headwind

David joined the FT in 2011 as a Marjorie Deane fellow. He covered emerging markets, equities and currencies before making the jump over to FT Alphaville in May 2012.

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| Oct 26 2012 15:06 | Comment |

From Citi’s Michael Saunders and Ann O’Kelly: Read more

UK GDP revision du jour

David joined the FT in 2011 as a Marjorie Deane fellow. He covered emerging markets, equities and currencies before making the jump over to FT Alphaville in May 2012.

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| Aug 01 2012 14:40 | Comment |

If you thought Moody’s and the IMF’s cuts were bad check out Morgan Stanley:

We make substantial downward revisions to our UK GDP growth forecasts from 0.5% and 1.8% GDP in 2012 and 2013, respectively, to -0.5% and 1.0%. In terms of GDP growth, our new central case is now very similar to our previous bear case… Read more

UK GDP: uh oh, edition (with added Gilt weirdness)

Izabella Kaminska joined FT Alphaville in October 2008. Before that she worked as a producer at CNBC, a natural gas reporter at Platts and an associate editor of BP's internal magazine.

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| Jul 25 2012 11:12 | Comment |

Hysteresis indeed (click through the pic for the full report):

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England and the eurozone: channel tunnels

Lisa joined FT Alphaville in September 2011 after a tour of duty through the guts of the financial industry, having worked as an analyst at a bank and for a financial data company. She's now the Head of New Projects for FT.com.

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| May 29 2012 10:04 | Comment |

The pound has been the strongest performing G10 currency so far this year, even though it has been weakening of late against the US dollar and Japanese yen.

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“Stagnation beckons” for the UK

| Oct 24 2011 20:53 | Comment |

Mervyn King was right: this will be worse than the 1930s.

At least that’s the message from a depressing summary of the UK economy by Citigroup’s Michael Saunders and Ann O’Kelly, who argue that this recession-recovery cycle will be worse than after the Great Crash. Read more

GDP growth seen at 0.2% for Q2

Kate is FT AV’s Asia Correspondent. She joined FT Alphaville in mid-2011 after carrying out various roles in the FT’s London office since 2005: interactive editor, companies reporter, and founding editor of the FT’s Energy Source blog.

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| Jul 25 2011 05:39 | Comment |

Economists surveyed by Bloomberg expect the UK’s GDP growth to have slowed to 0.2 per cent in the second quarter, from 0.5 per cent  in the first quarter.  Output was affected by disruptions relating to the disasters in Japan, and holidays for Easter and the royal wedding. Demand is being hit by government spending cuts while high inflation is eroding household incomes at the fastest pace since the 1970s. Meanwhile the FT says new research shows that households with lower than average earnings have seen a sharp decline in their gains from growth in the economy, with government policies and changing sectoral composition among the causes. Read more

UK GDP: a stats oddity

Joseph joined FT Alphaville way back in March 2010. He likes all the politically and legally fiddly bits of finance. He also likes credit, rates, global macro, tail risk, and all that stuff. (You should email him story ideas. He’ll take anything.)

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| May 26 2011 09:10 | Comment |

There is a lot of debate on whether the market is actually getting a decent picture of the UK economy at the moment — typified by the latest GDP release, though there’s also construction output and all sorts of indicators playing up and becoming highly volatile.

So we thought we’d pass along this observation from Marchel Alexandrovich, an economist at Jefferies (H/T Bryce Elder): Read more

On the brink of a British double-dip

Joseph joined FT Alphaville way back in March 2010. He likes all the politically and legally fiddly bits of finance. He also likes credit, rates, global macro, tail risk, and all that stuff. (You should email him story ideas. He’ll take anything.)

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| May 25 2011 11:05 | Comment |

Dramatic, we know. But the ONS has confirmed the economy grew only 0.5 per cent in 2011′s first quarter after its 0.5 per cent fall in 2010′s last three months, and technically…

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Putting the ‘stag’ in stagflation

Joseph joined FT Alphaville way back in March 2010. He likes all the politically and legally fiddly bits of finance. He also likes credit, rates, global macro, tail risk, and all that stuff. (You should email him story ideas. He’ll take anything.)

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| Apr 27 2011 09:58 | Comment |

Abstracting from the snow
We have an economy
On a plateau

That’s the (Haiku-ised) verdict of Joe Grice, chief economist of the Office of National Statistics, on Wednesday’s UK GDP release. Read more

Forecasting the end of fast growth

| Apr 05 2011 21:37 | Comment |

Fast economic growth, like all good things, must end. But when?

An NBER working paper by Barry Eichengreen, Donghyun Park and Kwanho Shin released on Monday uses data from 1957 through 2007 to suggest when and why slowdowns occur in fast-growing economies. Read more

A sudden rise in Britain’s debt-to-GDP figures? Blame the banks

Tracy Alloway used to be deputy editor of FT Alphaville. Here she learned the details of derivatives, the absurdities of accounting and the various structures of ... erm ... structured finance. She now covers big US banks for the FT paper, including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. She pops up on FT Alphaville every once in a while.

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| Jan 25 2011 11:00 | Comment |

Well, this took a while.

From the Office for National Statistics and with a H/T to Ian Fraser: Read more

Ugly UK GDP figures

Tracy Alloway used to be deputy editor of FT Alphaville. Here she learned the details of derivatives, the absurdities of accounting and the various structures of ... erm ... structured finance. She now covers big US banks for the FT paper, including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. She pops up on FT Alphaville every once in a while.

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| Jan 25 2011 09:34 | Comment |

Fresh off the wires — a suggestive double-dip GDP figure for the UK:

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The unsinkable, unfalsifiable HMS QE2

Joseph joined FT Alphaville way back in March 2010. He likes all the politically and legally fiddly bits of finance. He also likes credit, rates, global macro, tail risk, and all that stuff. (You should email him story ideas. He’ll take anything.)

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| Nov 01 2010 14:07 | Comment |

Did you hear the one about the superliner that squeezed under a Danish bridge with just an inch and half to spare?

It’s getting that way with HMS QE2. Read more

Blast off – UK GDP rocket

Joseph joined FT Alphaville way back in March 2010. He likes all the politically and legally fiddly bits of finance. He also likes credit, rates, global macro, tail risk, and all that stuff. (You should email him story ideas. He’ll take anything.)

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| Oct 26 2010 09:50 | Comment |

And it was RBS analysts wot won it.

Economic growth in the third quarter chewed up consensus forecasts and spat them out on Tuesday — recording 0.8 per cent above a predicted 0.4 per cent. Read more

Mr Bean was right

Joseph joined FT Alphaville way back in March 2010. He likes all the politically and legally fiddly bits of finance. He also likes credit, rates, global macro, tail risk, and all that stuff. (You should email him story ideas. He’ll take anything.)

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| Sep 28 2010 11:37 | Comment |

Don’t save, spend, Bank of England official Charles Bean advised Britain on Monday, telling Channel 4 News that low interest rates made any other choice rather useless.

‘No problem at all, my dear Bean,’ said Britain. Read more

UK GDP, livin’ in the moment

Joseph joined FT Alphaville way back in March 2010. He likes all the politically and legally fiddly bits of finance. He also likes credit, rates, global macro, tail risk, and all that stuff. (You should email him story ideas. He’ll take anything.)

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| Aug 27 2010 10:06 | Comment |

Again with the outperforming UK second-quarter GDP numbers.

The Office for National Statistics revised last month’s already shockingly good data upward on Friday. Read more

UK GDP records biggest rise in 4 years

Izabella Kaminska joined FT Alphaville in October 2008. Before that she worked as a producer at CNBC, a natural gas reporter at Platts and an associate editor of BP's internal magazine.

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| Jul 23 2010 10:00 | Comment |

Britain’s economy grew almost twice as much as economists expected in the second quarter, boosted by a pick-up in services, manufacturing and construction, the Office for National Statistics said on Friday. According to the stat men, the 1.1 per cent rise in the three months through to June is its fastest expansion in four years. Economists polled by Bloomberg and Reuters had forecast a 0.6 per cent gain. For more on the story see FT Alphaville. Read more

UK’s ONS admits numbers don’t add up

Tracy Alloway used to be deputy editor of FT Alphaville. Here she learned the details of derivatives, the absurdities of accounting and the various structures of ... erm ... structured finance. She now covers big US banks for the FT paper, including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. She pops up on FT Alphaville every once in a while.

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| Jun 30 2010 03:19 | Comment |

Publication of all official data related to the UK’s national accounts will be postponed until mid-July after the Office for National Statistics announced it had found “potential errors” in the data, reports the FT. The possible mistakes were spotted in the detailed breakdowns of expenditure in the economy just before the release of the gross domestic product figures, which had been due on Wednesday. Read more

UK GDP revised…

| Nov 25 2009 10:07 | Comment |

… but not by much.

From Reuters on Wednesday: Read more

GDP reaction: Sterling tumbles, Gilts rally, but FTSE fine

| Oct 23 2009 09:51 | Comment |

Oh dear, oh dear.

The market reaction after Friday’s UK GDP data: Read more