Stephen Adams discusses the implications of upcoming methodological changes to official data and definitions on key historical indicators.
Vikas Kumar is a senior consultant in Decision Analytics’ Global Consulting Practice. He analyses his experience in Collections Scoring Models for Autofinance Portfolios.
Sadia Sheikh touches upon the experience of selected countries in balancing austerity and their growth agendas.
Thomas Crowdy provides an update on Portugal’s on-going process of fiscal adjustment and assesses the implications for short-term growth.
Short-term trends are bleak: the weak eurozone is adversely affecting manufacturing via export demand whilst smaller businesses are being held back by lack of credit. Banks are under pressure from regulators and the public sector is struggling under its austerity programme. Consumers face poor labour market conditions while construction remains mired by lack of activity.
Peter Gutmann discusses Experian Economics 2013 first quarter second estimate of UK GDP.
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) annual inflation rate showed an unexpected and marked fall in April to 2.4%, after six consecutive months in a tight range of 2.7% to 2.8%.