{"id":8460,"date":"2019-03-12T10:04:27","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T10:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/uk-economic-growth-accelerates-in-january\/"},"modified":"2019-03-12T10:04:27","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T10:04:27","slug":"uk-economic-growth-accelerates-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/uk-economic-growth-accelerates-in-january\/","title":{"rendered":"UK economic growth accelerates in January"},"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=\"Shoppers on Oxford Street\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/158E5\/production\/_99239288_mediaitem99239017.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">The UK economy grew by 0.2% in the three months to January, according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics.<\/p>\n<p>That matched the previous three-month growth figures. For January the economy expanded by 0.5%.<\/p>\n<p>The ONS said strength in IT, health services and wholesale trading offset falls in the manufacturing of metals and cars, and construction output.<\/p>\n<p>The increase in wholesale could indicate stockpiling ahead of Brexit.<\/p>\n<p>However, the ONS was unable to comment on whether the rise was linked to UK manufacturers stockpiling.<\/p>\n<p>The services sector, which accounts for about 80% of the private sector economy, grew by 0.3% in January after a 0.2% fall in December. <\/p>\n<p>Construction, which accounts for about 6% of the economy, reversed its fall in December to grow by 2.8% in January. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-47535182\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK economy grew by 0.2% in the three months to January, according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics. That matched the previous three-month growth figures. For January the economy expanded by 0.5%. The ONS said strength in IT, health services and wholesale trading offset falls in the manufacturing of metals &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8460","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\/8460","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=8460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}