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...Even among Tory voters the positive differential has nearly halved, shrinking from around plus-44 to (67 ‘well’ v 23 ‘badly’) in January 2020 to plus-23 (58 ‘well’ v 35 ‘badly’) today....
...The other two candidates still in the race — Anna Diamantopoulou from Greece and Ulrik V Knudsen from Denmark — are not seen as front-runners, but might emerge as compromise candidates....
...Giles Kime, the interiors editor of Country Life magazine, that most devotional of British rural guides, is equally upbeat....
...Andrew Bailey, the new Bank of England governor, was accused of producing overly rosy predictions on Thursday after the central bank said it expected a V-shaped economic recovery from the coronavirus crisis...
...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...
...Adam Slater, lead economist at Oxford Economics, said that across advanced economies it was too early to celebrate a V-shaped spending bounce just because there were some initial strong signs of life among...
...The directors of the Science, Natural History, British and V&A museums, as well as the National and Tate galleries, said in a joint statement: “We welcome the chancellor of the exchequer’s declaration of...
...That had a deeper drop in economic output than the April official figures showed last week but also a V-shaped recovery with little longer term scarring....
...“Most people see a V-shaped recovery, but we think it’s going to stop half way,” she said....
...He said the BoE’s V-shaped recovery prediction would be “challenging”. On Thursday, the BoE forecast that the crisis will push the economy into its deepest recession in 300 years....
...“With no sign of a rapid V-shaped bounceback on the cards, consumers remain pessimistic about the state of their finances and the wider economic picture for the year to come,” said Joe Staton, client strategy...
...“An initial ‘V’ shape in the recovery — and by initial we mean a few months — is inevitable as people are allowed to return to work and the shops,” Mr Wood added....
...Nearly a year on from the start of the pandemic, we can take stock of which economies have weathered it best, says economics editor Chris Giles....
...The chancellor’s words reflect a Treasury view that early hopes of a “V-shaped” recession — an optimistic outlook shared by the Bank of England — were misplaced, and Britain is heading for a period of mass...
...“We have to face the hard reality we’re not going to have a V-shaped recovery,” he said....
...While the governor said a month ago that he was looking at lots of “V-shaped” charts to signify a rapid bounceback, on Friday he was much less willing to be drawn about the shape of the recovery, saying...
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...The Treasury is not nearly as optimistic about a V-shaped recovery and this was reflected in an internal briefing paper which raised the possibility of tax rises and spending cuts....
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