Are we in the calm before the economic storm?
Wednesday 20 May 2026 5:05 am | Updated: Tuesday 19 May 2026 5:18 pm
Are we in the calm before the economic storm?
By: Christian May
Editor-in-Chief
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There is a palpable sense of being in the calm before the storm. Thanks to the backward-looking nature of most economic data releases, we’re being fed glimpses of the gathering gloom.
The latest GDP growth data from the ONS covered Q1 and came in at a respectable 0.6 per cent. However, it has been widely noted that a strong start to the year is a familiar pattern, accentuated at the........
