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UK UNEMPLOYMENT The number of jobless Britons fell by 45,000 between January and March to 2.63 million, according to the Office for National Statistics, pushing the unemployment rate down to 8.2%. The number of people claiming jobleseekers allowance fell by 13,700 to 1.59 million last month. UK OUTPUT Manufacturing rose 0.9% in March, stronger than the 0.5% rise City forecasters predicted, offsetting some of the 1.1% drop in February, according to the Office for National Statistics.
BRITISH CONFIDENCE Sentiment among small and medium-sized manufacturers rose for the first time since mid-2011 in the three months to April, the CBI said.
INFLATION Overall shop price inflation fell to 1.3% in April, from 1.5% in March, the British Retail Consortium said.
SAVINGS LEVELS The ING Direct Consumer Savings Monitor, which tracks ordinary Britons accessible savings level, found that savings rose by an 18% rise in the first three months of the year.
SERVICE SECTOR The CIPS/Markit PMI index for the UK services sector dipped to 53.3 in April, from 55.3 in March.
HOUSE PRICES UK house price fell by 0.2% in April to £164,134, according to Nationwides lastest house price index. On the year they were down 0.9%.
MANUFACTURING Britain is falling behind other European economies when it comes to export of high-end manufatured products, according to the McKinsey Global institute. The Markit eurozone manufacturing PMI index fell to a 34 month low of 49.9 in April, down from 47.7 in March. The HSBC/Markit maunfacturing PMI index rose to 49.3 in April, from 48.3 in March.
CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY The CPPs/Markit constuction PMI index slipped to 55.8 in April, from 56.7 in March, but despite the drop it was still comfortably above the 50 mark separating growth and contraction.
MORTGAGE APPROVALS There were 31,888 mortgage approvals for house purchase in March, down from32,480 in February, the British Bankers Association said.
HIGH STREET CONDITIONS The CBIs latest monthly distibutive trades survey, covering the first two weeks in April, showed 33% of retailers saw an increase in sales volumes on a year ago, and 39% reported a fall. The balance of -6% marked a slight fall in sales, following little change in the previous two months CONSUMER CONFIDENCE Nationwides Consumer Confidence Index jumped to 53 in March, the highest in nine months, from 44 in February and 46 in March.
RETAIL SALES In the year to March UK retail sales rose by 1.3% on a like-for-like basis, according to the British Retail Consortium. Total sales were up by 3.6%.
JOBS The latest REC/KPMG report on jobs found that permanent staff placements increased for the third month in a row in March.
GROWTH The Office for National Statistics said the the economy contracted by 0.3% between October and December last year, pushing the annual rate of growth down to only 0.7%. Economists had expected unrevised readings of a 0.2% contraction quarter-on-quarter and 0.8% year-on-year.
< FOOD PRICE INFLATION Overall shop price inflation fell to 1.2% in February, from 1.4% in January, according to the British Retail Consortium. Food price inflation rose to 4.2%, from 3.7%, while non-food inflation dropped to -0.7% from 0.0%.
HOSPITALITY INSOLVENCIES Fugures from PwC show that 375 leisure and hospitality businesses went bankrupt in the fourth quarter, 12% more than the third quarter and up by 30% on the year.