Negative macroeconomic statistics from the UK | 24 Agosto 2023

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Britain's economy looks on course to shrink during the current quarter and risks falling into a recession, as a survey showed a slump in factory output and broader weakness in the face of higher interest rates. The S&P Global/CIPS composite Purchasing Managers' Index tumbled to 47.9 in August from 50.8 in July. The reading was the lowest since January 2021, when Britain was in a COVID-19 lockdown, and the first fall below the 50 level which divides growth from contraction since January this year. Britain's economy - struggling with high inflation as well as the after-effects of the coronavirus pandemic and Brexit - last shrank in the third quarter of 2022, when many businesses closed to mark Queen Elizabeth's funeral. Since then, it has defied widespread forecasts of recession but has grown slowly.

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