Today’s Detailed Commentaries
Europe >> United Kingdom: Continuing UK recessionWhy Read: Because the United Kingdom is an important world economy, and because continuing recession in the UK does not bode well.
Commentary: It has been announced that:
‘preliminary estimates are that UK economy contracted by 0.7% in Q2 2012 as a large reduction in the construction sector impacted on this’; with
reference to extraordinary ‘holidays’ being one reason for the decline.