Tombs said: "Industry is still lagging behind partly due to temporary factors such as warm weather depressing demands for heating energy and also volatility in the mining sector."
"There is weakness in the manufacturing sector which chimes with weakness across the rest of Europe, and global trade volumes are starting to slide. There are signs that the global trade environment has deteriorated a little and Britain is picking that up."
The improvement in May's figures over the first quarter performance will give members of the BoE's rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) encouragement to raise the bank rate by 25 basis points to 0.75 percent, as it pursues a policy of returning rate normalization.
"The services sector is showing signs of strength and that is likely to tip the balance for a rate hike at its next meeting in August," said Tombs.
Higher global oil prices, with the benchmark Brent Crude at 78.8 U.S. dollars on Tuesday, a rise of 67.7 percent over the year, look set to push British Consumer Price Index (CPI) further above the BoE's target rate of 2 percent.
CPI was at 2.3 percent in May, and a rise will further strengthen the argument for the MPC to raise the bank rate.
Tombs said: "Consumers are likely to be hit by a burst of inflation, it is likely to rise to 2.8 percent on the CPI measure in the next couple of months, given that oil prices have picked up."
The National Institute for Economic and Social Research (NIESR), a London-based economic think-tank released its monthly GDP estimates for June on Tuesday, which showed the reinvigorated economic growth strengthening.
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