{"id":5285,"date":"2018-12-10T10:13:41","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T10:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/uk-economy-slows-as-car-sales-fall\/"},"modified":"2018-12-10T10:13:41","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T10:13:41","slug":"uk-economy-slows-as-car-sales-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/uk-economy-slows-as-car-sales-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"UK economy slows as car sales fall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" alt=\"Cars\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/15FC3\/production\/_104715009_cargettyimages-461479694.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Growth in the UK&#8217;s economy has slowed as car sales fell and the manufacturing sector stalled, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has said.<\/p>\n<p>The economy grew by 0.4% in the three months to October, slower than the 0.6% in the three months to September.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;GDP growth slowed going into the autumn after a strong summer, with a softening in services sector growth mainly due to a fall in car sales,&#8221; said the ONS&#8217;s Rob Kent-Smith.<\/p>\n<p>GDP grew by 0.1% in October.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kent Smith, who is head of national accounts at the ONS, said there had been strong growth in IT and accountancy which had offset the fall in car sales.<\/p>\n<p>However, he added: &#8220;Manufacturing saw no growth at all in the latest three months, mainly due to a decline in the often-erratic pharmaceutical industry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Construction, while slowing slightly, continued its recent solid performance with growth in housebuilding and infrastructure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-46505692\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Getty Images Growth in the UK&#8217;s economy has slowed as car sales fell and the manufacturing sector stalled, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has said. The economy grew by 0.4% in the three months to October, slower than the 0.6% in the three months to September. &#8220;GDP growth slowed going into the &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}