17 posts categorised "The economy"

December 18, 2020 How to use nowcasting techniques to beat the queue in a world of fast data? What is the state of the UK economy right now? How much of the lost economic output has been recovered?

December 06, 2012 New OBR forecasts – a lucky escape for the Chancellor? By John Hawksworth, Chief Economist At the time of the Budget in March, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) was expecting UK GDP growth to...

November 20, 2012 Inflation hits richest and poorest hardest By Tom Robinson, PwC Economist, and John Hawksworth, Chief Economist Media attention focuses on the headline inflation rate, which rose by a surprisingly large amount...

November 06, 2012 Godzilla and the Aspen tree By Nick Forrest As part of the PwC-sponsored Beesley lecture series, Andrew Haldane, Executive Director of Financial Stability at the Bank of England gave a...

October 30, 2012 Can the Creative Industries help to grow the UK economy? By David Lancefield, Economics Partner The creative industries – comprising television, films, music, games and the arts – are a material force within the UK...

August 24, 2012 Disappointing GDP? It’s the “New Normal” By Andrew Sentance, Senior Economic Adviser Follow @asentance GDP figures just released show the economy contracted by 0.5% in the second quarter of 2012 –...

July 12, 2012 Rent not buy - the “new normal” for the housing market By Rachel Lund, PwC Economist Like much of the rest of the economy, growth in house prices has stalled. The two leading indices of house...

May 22, 2012 Tough times for savers By Nick Forrest, Director, Economics The FSA has recently published our report containing new recommendations for projected rates of return on investment products. Our recommendations...

April 25, 2012 Has the UK really fallen back into recession? By John Hawksworth, Chief Economist Today's preliminary data showed a small decline in GDP of 0.2% in the first quarter of 2012, implying a mild...

April 19, 2012 UK Labour Market: Reading the Runes By John Hawksworth, Chief Economist After a period last year when unemployment started rising again, the latest published data from the Office for National Statistics...

March 21, 2012 Budget 2012: still another £114 billion of fiscal pain to come By John Hawksworth, Chief Economist From an economic perspective, there were few major surprises in the Budget. The OBR has made only minimal changes to...

March 19, 2012 Time for Tax Reform By Andrew Sentance, Senior Economic Adviser Follow @asentance The content of the forthcoming Budget has been the subject of intense speculation. Most of the focus...

March 19, 2012 A Dickens of a Budget By Alex Henderson, Senior Tax Partner In this bicentenary year of Charles Dickens will the Chancellor have been using any spare moments to reacquaint himself...

March 08, 2012 Is the UK economy about to turn the corner? By John Hawksworth, Chief Economist This is a key question we try to answer in our latest UK Economic Outlook report, published here on 8th...

March 01, 2012 The Greece crisis - a perspective from Greek businesses By Richard Boxshall On February 21, the Greek government and its Eurozone partners ended weeks of uncertainty and agreed a second bailout package avoiding, in...

February 13, 2012 Life beyond GDP By John Hawksworth, Chief Economist As usual there was a lot of fuss in the media about the latest GDP data on 25 January showing...

February 09, 2012 Any relief for the consumer in 2012? By John Hawksworth, Chief Economist 2011 was a tough year for the UK consumer. While average earnings grew by only around 2%, consumer price inflation...

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