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Following yesterday’s report, David Kern, BCC Chief Economist, comments: “The UK economy is probably now growing again but a relapse in activity is a real danger. Preventing a double-dip recession must be the main priority. In the next two or three quarters, the recovery will be driven by the stock cycle and by the cumulative [...]

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Ahead of the Chancellor’s Pre-Budget Report, the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) has today published its latest Economic Forecast. The business group has made downward revisions to its GDP expectations for 2009 and 2010, but is more optimistic about the number of job losses the country will experience, reducing its prediction for peak unemployment to [...]

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Figures from the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) released today show that the services sector in Britain grew again in November, as it did in October.
The continuing growth is good news for the economy as a whole as the services sector accounts for nearly three-quarters of the total economy. For this reason the [...]

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