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...Overall “the recovery in the house market has so far been V-shaped”, said Hansen Lu, property economist at Capital Economics, a consultancy....
...He added that this was likely to suggest a slower recovery than the “so far, so V [shaped]” assessment of the BoE’s chief economist, Andy Haldane....
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...The recovery is “so far, so V [shaped]”, Andy Haldane said in an online presentation, explaining that he voted against pumping another £100bn of newly created money into the economy because the “upside news...
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...“Most people see a V-shaped recovery, but we think it’s going to stop half way,” she said....
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