{"id":503483,"date":"2025-10-16T06:37:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T06:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/503483\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T06:37:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T06:37:18","slug":"uk-economy-sees-weaker-than-expected-growth-in-august-after-july-contraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/503483\/","title":{"rendered":"UK economy sees weaker-than-expected growth in August after July contraction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Britain\u2019s economy eked out growth in August but expansion was weaker than forecast and official figures revealed a surprise contraction in July after a downward revision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said gross domestic product (GDP) rose by 0.1% month-on-month in August and fell by 0.1% in July, in a revision to the previous estimate for no growth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Most economists had been expecting expansion of 0.2% in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">In the three months to August, GDP grew by 0.3% compared with 0.2% growth in the three months to July, the ONS added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Liz McKeown, director of economic statistics at the ONS, said: \u201cServices growth held steady, while there was a smaller drag from production than previously.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">\u201cContinued strength in business rental and leasing and healthcare were the main contributors to services growth, partially offset by weakness in some consumer facing services, while wholesalers also fared poorly.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain\u2019s economy eked out growth in August but expansion was weaker than forecast and official figures revealed a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,164989,393,4884,1195,1144,15165,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-503483","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-downward-revision","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-growth","14":"tag-northern-ireland","15":"tag-office-for-national-statistics","16":"tag-scotland","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115382468168412376","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}