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UK Q2 GDP Beats Expectations but Underlying Weakness Limits BoE Policy Impact
At face value, the UK's 0.3% second-quarter growth performance looks reasonable amid a flurry of global and domestic headwinds. But this is largely concentrated in components not intrinsically linked to underlying economic performance, and the Bank of England will take these figures with a pinch of salt. We expect growth to slow in the second half






