A lot has been happening in the European bond yield markets this week, as a recent (successful) sale of bonds by the Irish government gave a boost to borrowing rates across Europe, and the gap between UK and German bond yields increased to the largest it has been since 2005.
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Chart of the Week: Week 51, 2013: Historical Household Spending
The Office for National Statistics’ annual household spending report came out last week, so this week’s chart is on how household spending has changed over the past decade (just in time for Christmas).
Chart of the Week: Week 50, 2013: UK Average Earnings Forecast
The Economic Research Council’s third annual Clash of the Titans was held last night, and we received three sets of forecasts from three leading economic thinkers (you can see their forecasts in full here).
Chart of the Week: Week 49, 2013: Clash of the Titans
As the annual Clash of the Titans economic prediction competition is taking place next week on the 10th December, we’ve taken a look back at last year’s forecasts.
Chart of the Week: Week 48, 2013: Public Sector Finances
Public sector finance figures were released at the end of last week, showing that net borrowing had decreased in the financial year 2012/13.
Chart of the Week: Week 47, 2013: The Graduate Labour Market
Summary Following on from our chart last week on underemployment, this week we looked at the interaction between recent graduates and young non-graduates in the labour market, courtesy of a recent ONS report. What does the chart show? The red and blue lines show the unemployment rate (the percentage of people within a group that […]