Friday July 3, 02:37 PM
FACTBOX-British economy checklist ahead of BoE meeting
LONDON, July 3 (Reuters) - The Bank of England looks set to
keep interest rates at 0.5 percent when it announces its monthly
policy decision at 1100 GMT on July 9.
Most attention will focus on whether it raises its 125
billion pound target
for quantitative easing.
Following is a summary of the main UK economic data over the
past month.
(Double-click on codes in last column for previous stories)
LATEST RELATION F'CAST JUNE PVS STORIES
TO F'CAST MEETING
CPI (NYSE: CPY - news) yy 2.2 STRONGER 2.0 2.3
RPI yy -1.1 STRONGER -1.5 -1.2
RPI-X yy 1.6 STRONGER 1.3 1.7
PPI Output yy* -- -- -- -0.3
Ave Earnings 0.8 STRONGER 0.1 -0.4
3m yy
Claimant Count 39.3 STRONGER 60.0 57.1
Change (000s)
Jobless Rate 7.2 STRONGER 7.3 7.1
(ILO)
RetailSales mm -0.6 WEAKER 0.4 0.9
CBI Sales bal. -17 SAME -17 -17
GfK Consumer -25 SAME -25 -27
confidence
BoE Mortgage 43,414 WEAKER 46 43,201
approvals(000s)
BoE Mortgage +0.324 WEAKER +1.1 +0.973
lending(bln stg)
BoE Consumer +0.300 STRONGER +0.250 +0.314
Credit
RICS Housing -44.1 STRONGER -51 -59.9
Nationwide mm +0.9 STRONGER -0.4 +1.2
Halifax mm* -- -- -- +2.6
Manufacturing 0.2 STRONGER UNCH -0.1
output mm
Industrial 0.3 STRONGER -0.1 -0.6
output mm
CBI Orders bal. -51 WEAKER -45 -56
Mfg PMI 47.0 STRONGER 46.5 45.4
Svcs PMI 51.6 WEAKER 52.0 51.7
GDP qq -2.4 WEAKER -2.1 -1.9
Trade Gap -7.003 WEAKER -6.4 -6.589
M4 mm +0.2 -- -- +0.2
GBP trade- 83.4 -- -- 82.7
weighted
Sep Short 98.94 -- -- 98.88
stg
FTSE 100 4,264 -- -- 4,400
NOTES
Data listed for the previous meeting indicate data as they
were available to policymakers at the time. Some numbers may
have been revised since then.
* The following data have not yet been released.
Halifax house price data for June expected week of July 6
Producer price data for June due July 10
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