UK Publications
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Rob Wood (Chief UK Economist)
- In one line: House price inflation to gradually ease over the rest of the year.
- In one line: Manufacturing growth will slow as front-running unwinds, but price pressures are building.
- In one line: Downward revision to 2025/26 borrowing leaves little net news, but higher inflation will boost borrowing in the year ahead.
- In one line: Limited fall in ex-petrol retail sales suggest consumption is slowing rather than collapsing.
- In one line: Early May sample period leaves confidence looking too rosy.
- In one line: Sharp output downturn leaves MPC more likely to hold in July.
- In one line: Inflation scotches a June hike, but most of the downside surprise was in erratic components that will rebound.
- In one line: In one line: Sharp payrolls fall will be revised much stronger, but with wages weakening too the MPC will stay on hold in June.
GROWTH WOBBLES WHILE INFLATION JUMPS...
- …THE MPC WILL HOLD RATES AS LONG AS IT CAN
- Weak employment data and a sharp drop in the PMI challenge our view that growth was holding up.
- But the PMI over-reacts to uncertainty, the job fall will be revised away, and consumers’ confidence held up.
- Oil prices and Mr. Burnham accepting fiscal rules explain gilt-yield falls; economic data had little effect.
- Increased political uncertainty and high energy costs weighed on business sentiment in May.
- But the PMI overreacts to political noise, and price pressures remain strong.
- We stick to our July rate-hike forecast, but it’s a much closer call as downside risks to growth rise.
- Some frozen government-set prices, a utility-bill cut and the early Easter combined to lower inflation.
- We think that most—not all—of the downside inflation surprise in April, such as in airfares, will unwind.
- Weaker underlying inflation lowers the chance of a rate hike, but surveys still point to a sharp acceleration.
- The sharp fall in payrolls in April looks misleading, as they are far weaker than surveys suggested.
- Payroll revisions remain predictable, and April should eventually show jobs little changed month-to-month.
- Falling jobs and dovish pay growth will keep the MPC on hold in June, but we expect wage gains to improve.
- Betting markets give Sir Keir Starmer only 15% chance of being Prime Minister after September.
- So, rates markets have likely mostly priced in the impact of the Labour Party leadership changing.
- We estimate 10-year yields would rise another 7-to-10bp should Mr. Burnham win a leadership contest.
- In one line: Early Easter exaggerates the fall, but it was a weak reading nonetheless.
- In one line: Noise exaggerates growth, but GDP was nonetheless solid heading into the Iran War.
- In one line: Few signs of a spillover from higher energy prices into core import costs, yet.
- In one line: House price inflation to remain weak in 2026 as higher interest costs bite.
- In one line: Uncertainty hits permanent hiring, but vacancies improve, suggesting the job market is holding up.
- The economy was ticking along fine before the war, even if Q1 GDP exaggerates growth somewhat.
- Ten-year gilt yields have another 30-to-40bp to rise if Andy Burnham wins a Labour leadership contest.
- April inflation should drop to 3.0% in data published this week, while the jobless rate should hold steady.
