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...Tim Moore, of S&P Global, said the survey’s results showed the impact of “elevated borrowing costs and a wait-and-see approach to new projects”....
...The S&P Global/Cips UK construction purchasing managers’ index fell marginally to 45.5 in November from 45.6 the previous month....
...John Glen, Cips chief economist, said: “A revival in the services economy is helping the UK’s private sector end the year on a more positive note....
...It’s a beautiful brown glen check with a little thread of purple running through it. I bought it on sale, bringing the price down from unreasonable to merely high....
...Alison and I follow a bend in the path and are greeted with a view of Glen Dee in evening sun, the light falling rapidly behind the plateau, shadows racing across the ground....
...Glen said there was “a question mark over the sustainability of this growth and the challenges that lie beneath the floorboards”....
...John Glen, chief economist at the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (Cips), said the steep drop in house building “will send a chill down the spine of the UK economy”....
...Chris Williamson, chief business economist at S&P Global Market Intelligence, which publishes the index with the Chartered Institute for Procurement and Supply (Cips), said the data showed the UK economy...
...“The wrecking ball of higher inflation and interest rates has knocked the UK’s residential building output,” said John Glen, chief economist at the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply....
...be proud of,” said Colin O’Neill, chief executive of the Colin Glen Trust....
...Mark Harper, transport secretary, last week met John Glen, chief secretary to the Treasury, to discuss plans to cut billions of pounds from the department’s capital budget after 2025....
...The data “paints a bright picture of progress in the construction sector with a robust jump in output last month”, said John Glen, Cips chief economist....
...HOLD: Glencore (GLEN) The mining and trading giant will still pay out another $2.2bn in “top-up” shareholder returns, writes Alex Hamer....
...So, while the mid-blue Boss suit and tonal M&S button-down worn by Hugo, the marketing executive sitting next to Elba, is so unobtrusive as to be unnoticeable, brash is the only polite way to describe a...
...As business expectations remained at historically low levels, the overarching concerns remain that there was “little power in the UK economy’s engine of growth for 2023”, John Glen, chief economist at the...
...“The sun broke through in February after six months of gloom with a swift and significant jump in output for private sector business,” said John Glen, Cips chief economist....
...Optimism from builders about the year ahead was at its lowest level since May 2020, said John Glen, chief economist at the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply....
...“Optimism among private sector firms was the best for eight months signalling the downturn may not be as long and protracted as feared,” said John Glen, Cips chief economist....
...“Everything is teetering on an edge,” says Peter Clark, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC)’s director for Scotland....
...The S&P Global/Cips UK construction purchasing managers’ index — which measures month-on-month changes in activity in the sector — was at 49.2 in August, marginally above the 48.9 in July, but below the...
...John Glen, Cips chief economist, said: “The Covid veil, now almost completely lifted, has revealed the challenges still faced by exporters struggling with customs and paperwork challenges and other Brexit...
...In October, the Financial Times reported that the Treasury had asked HS2’s management team to identify potential cuts or “scope reductions” to the high-speed line....
...John Glen, chief economist at the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply, said that though the headline index showed growth after two months of contraction, “the devil lies in the detail pointing to...
...John Glen, Cips chief economist, said that “concerns over rising energy and food bills affected consumer appetite for pubs and restaurants and demand was scaled back”....
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