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...“There is a mounting body of evidence that UK house prices are close to finding their floor,” according to Melissa Kidd, an economist at Lombard Street Research....
...Melissa Kidd, Lombard Street Research UK residential property prices are set to end 2009 around 7 per cent higher than at the end of 2008, on the Nationwide measure....
...Douglas McWilliams, chief executive, CEBR Bumpy....
...Douglas McWilliams, Chief Executive, CEBR Proportionately, the shift from west to east has been accelerated by the differential impact of the crisis on the different economies....
...Douglas McWilliams, chief executive, Centre for Economics and Business Research Ideally the target should be to stop the debt GDP ratio rising by 2015 which means getting the deficit down to £60 billion...
...Douglas McWilliams, chief executive, CEBR The basic risk is the markets, especially forex/gilts which could derail a fiscal consolidation strategy which needs a pretty lax monetary policy to offset it....
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