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Economic Outlook Peter Andrews Agent for Greater London, Bank of England Construction Industry Council 23 May 2012

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Economic Outlook. Peter Andrews Agent for Greater London, Bank of England Construction Industry Council 23 May 2012. Prospects for activity and inflation. FEB GDP projection; mkt interest rate expect’ns and £325 bn asset purchases. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Page 1: Economic Outlook

Economic Outlook

Peter Andrews Agent for Greater London, Bank of England

Construction Industry Council 23 May 2012

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Prospects for activity and inflation

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MAY GDP projection; mkt interest rate expect’ns and £325 bn asset purchases

FEB GDP projection; mkt interest rate expect’ns and £325 bn asset purchases

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MAY CPI inflation projection; mkt interest rate expect’ns and £325 bn asset purchases

FEB CPI inflation projection; mkt interest rate expect’ns and £325 bn asset purchases

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Risks/issues

• Euro area: extreme outcome excluded, but impact of threat on asset prices, confidence and activity included

• Consumption and real incomes

• Productivity

• Costs, prices and margins (special survey)

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Money, credit and asset prices

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Sterling exchange rates

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Chart 1.9 Public term issuance by the major UK lenders

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Corporate credit availability by firm size(a)

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Commercial real estate credit availability(a)

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New Bank Rate tracker mortgage rate, Bank Rate and an estimate of banks’ marginal funding cost

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Nationwide house prices: annual changes to 2012 Q1

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Demand

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UK goods exports and surveys of export orders

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UK import penetration and relative import prices(a)

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Household consumption and real income

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Household saving ratio

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Business investment to GDP ratio(a)

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Cyclically-adjusted primary deficit

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Output and supply

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Output in 2012 Q1 compared with a quarter earlier and a year earlier

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‘Normal’ seasonal shut-down periods during winter months

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Shut down periods over the most recent winter

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Public and private sector employment

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Whole-economy and sectoral labour productivity(a)

(a) Output per hour.(b) Continuations of pre-recession trends calculated by projecting forward labour productivity

from 2008 Q2 using the average quarterly growth rate between 1997 Q2 and 2008 Q1.

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Survey indicators of capacity utilisation by sector

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Why is productivity weak?

Candidate stories

• Labour hoarding: retain skills and anticipate recovery. Helped by bank forbearance

• Tighter credit conditions: shortage of working capital, lack of finance for new/dynamic firms

• Low investment and some failures/capital scrapping

• Fall in hours worked → less learning by doing

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(a) Output per hour. Subsectors are ordered by the difference between 1998–2007 average productivity growth and 2008–2011 Q3 average productivity growth. The number in parentheses is each sector’s nominal share in 2008 services value added. Shares do not sum to 100 due to rounding.

Services labour productivity growth by subsector(a)

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Costs and prices

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CPI, RPI and RPIX inflation

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Contributions to CPI inflation(a)

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Contributions to private sector unit labour costs

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Corporate profit share (excl financial corporations and oil)

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Economic Outlook

Peter Andrews Agent for Greater London, Bank of England

Construction Industry Council 23 May 2012