Eurostat announced their updated statistics for European government finances this morning, and the headline figure showed that across the EU, the average deficit improved from 3.3% to 3%.
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October 2015
China, which is on everyone’s worry list, is doing exactly what it said it would do, and that is reduce the economy’s reliance on exports and infrastructure building. The country generally is becoming …..
Chart of the Week: Week 41, 2015: Historical Real Average Salary
According to data released this morning, earnings growth remained strong in the three months to August at 2.8% in nominal terms.
Chart of the Week: Week 40, 2015: UK Workless Households
The annual study from the ONS on workless households in the UK was released yesterday, and it showed a mixed picture with total workless households continuing to fall but the number of households where nobody has ever worked growing.
Chart of the Week: Week 39, 2015: EU Youth Unemployment
European unemployment figures were released by Eurostat this morning, and showed a continuation of the downward trend in the aggregate EU unemployment rate.
Chart of the Week: Week 38, 2015: International Comparison of Productivity
At the end of last week, the Office for National Statistics released their annual international comparison of productivity for 2014, and it showed that although the UK’s productivity increased very slightly, our relative position within the G7 worsened to the lowest point on record.