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...“Following a strong November, retail sales plummeted in December with all types of outlets being hit,” said Heather Bovill, ONS deputy director for surveys and economic indicators....
...Ruth Gregory, deputy chief UK economist at research company Capital Economics, said the rebound in GDP in November “probably means the economy escaped a recession in 2023”....
...Ben Broadbent, Bank of England deputy governor for monetary policy, noted last week that the latest rise in the BoE’s benchmark rate, to 5.25 per cent, had not triggered any further rise in expectations...
...Starobin writes: By her account, Yermak, through his deputies in the Office of the President and cabinet advisers at his beck and call, is manoeuvring to exert control over a large swath of Ukraine’s economy...
...“He was beginning to investigate the underbelly of fame,” says the show’s curator, Jessica Beck, who joined Gagosian from the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh last year....
...Tax revenues “have held up impressively” in the face of weak economic activity, noted Martin Beck, chief economic adviser to the EY Item Club....
...“Protest is not a gift from the state, it is a fundamental right,” said Jodie Beck, policy and campaigns officer at Liberty, the civil rights campaign group....
...“We really want to be first [to launch from Europe],” said Ian Annett, deputy chief executive of the UK Space Agency. “We want to become the leading European supplier of launch.”...
...Martin Beck, chief economic adviser at EY ITEM Club: A little better....
...Martin Beck, chief economic adviser to the consultancy EY Item Club, said that while it was early days, April’s performance suggested “that the consumer sector may hold up against current headwinds better...
...Senior Saudi officials say they are pursuing their own interests and that of the wider group, not acting at Russia’s beck and call....
...“After strong pre-Christmas trading in November, retail sales fell across the board in December, with feedback from retailers suggesting Omicron impacted on footfall,” said Heather Bovill, ONS deputy director...
...However, Carl Emmerson, deputy director at the Institute for Fiscal Studies said that while the lower than expected borrowing “will doubtless please the chancellor”, what matters more “is the extent to which...
...The votes from deputy governor Dave Ramsden and Michael Saunders signify an “increasingly hawkish stance on monetary policy, an important sign as markets focus on the potential for an interest rate increase...
...The latest data showed “health services and the arts performing better than initially thought”, said Jonathan Athow, deputy national statistician for economic statistics at the ONS....
...“The elevated savings ratio reaffirms that households are emerging from the crisis with cash to fuel higher spending,” said Martin Beck, economic advisor to the EY Item Club....
...Martin Beck, senior economic adviser to the EY Item Club, also thought that the fall in sales “is likely to reflect the continued normalisation of spending patterns”....
...This view stemmed, as BoE deputy governor Ben Broadbent explained, from an obscure convention in the way the central bank constructs its forecasts....
...“The world of work continues to rebound robustly from the effects of the pandemic,” said Jonathan Athow, ONS deputy national statistician for economic statistics....
...Anna Leach, deputy chief economist at the CBI: The UK economy is likely to lag other developed economies in 2023....
...The event attracted 2,000 mourners, including deputy first minister and vice-president of the nationalist Sinn Féin party, Michelle O'Neill....
...According to Ben Broadbent, deputy governor for monetary policy, the recovery in the forecast was supported by an assumption that interest rates would be negative for a period, but he stressed the effect...
...“It wouldn’t take much in the way of adverse risks crystallising for the dissenters to form a majority before 2020 is out,” said Martin Beck, at the consultancy Oxford Economics....
...And which of them is their equivalent of BoJo/Becks? Andrew Gordon: The EY way is Ethics All crises provide opportunities for miscreants....
...GDP was stagnant in June, offering “a poor launch pad for growth in the second quarter,” according to Martin Beck, at the consultancy Oxford Economics....
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