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Retail sales volumes in April 2015, up 1.2% on the month, up 4.7% on the year Average store prices fell by 3.2% in April 2015, compared with April 2014 Commenting on the latest retail sales figures for April 2015 published today by the ONS, David Kern, Chief Economist at the British Chambers of Commerce, …
In the three months to December 2014, employment rose by 103,000 and unemployment fell by 97,000 compared with the previous quarter. The unemployment rate was 5.7%, compared with 6.0% in the previous three months. The youth unemployment rate was 16.2%, unchanged from the previous three months but much lower than the 19.9% recorded a …
Commenting on today’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) interest rate decision, David Kern, Chief Economist at the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) said: “The MPC has clearly made the right decision to keep interest rates and quantitative easing on hold. Developments in the Eurozone – the European Central Bank’s decision to launch its own quantitative …