Business Diary: Economic Indicators - May 2012
1st
Sales of £1m+ homes fell in 2011.
Property Indexes
Lenders increase borrowing rates by up to 0.5 percent for existing customers.
4.1 million to be taxed at highest rate in 2011-12.
Start Date: 1st May 2012
2nd
Economic Statistics
Manchester experienced 15.4 per cent rise in visitors from 2010 to 2011.
3rd
Credit lending to businesses fell by £3.2 billion in March 2012.
Economic Statistics
Broad money supply shrank by 5 per cent in 12 months leading to March 2012. [pdf]
2012 growth forecast for the UK economy cut to 0.6 per cent.
Start Date: 3rd May 2012
4th
Business Activity - Risks
England and Wales insolvencies rose by 10 per cent in Q1 of 2012.
UK new car sales rose to 142,322 in April 2012.
UK house prices fell by 2.4 per cent in April 2012.
8th
German industrial orders rose by 2.2 per cent in March 2012.
Start Date: 8th May 2012
Inflation on shop goods fell to 1.3 per cent in April 2012.
Rental values fell by 1.1 per cent over five years since December 2008.
9th
UK pension deficit rose to £217bn in April 2012.
City jobs have fallen by 90,000 since the recession.
Start Date: 9th May 2012
UK retail sales fell 3.3 per cent in April 2012 compared with April 2011.
10th
9,600 homes were repossessed in the UK in the first three months of 2012.
UK manufacturing output rose by 0.9 per cent in March 2012.
11th
New buy-to-let lending in the first quarter of 2012 totalled £3.7bn
Premium car sales rose by 4.9 per cent in the first quarter of 2012.
UK producer prices rose by 0.7 per cent in April 2012.
14th
Forbes release their annual list of top tech venture capitalist investors.
Start Date: 14th May 2012
Monthly inflation index sees value drop by 0.1 to 102.9 in April 2012.
15th
Yields on government bonds drop to 1.87 per cent.
1.4 part-time workers do so because they cannot find full-time employment.
Deadline: 15th May 2012
The average property in Scotland sells for £17,500 less than the asking price.
Economic Statistics
UK trade deficit narrowed to £2.7 billion in March 2012.
16th
Forecast for 2012 cut to 0.8 per cent in May 2012.
Start Date: 16th May 2012
UK unemployment fell to 2.63 million in the first quarter of 2012.
Start Date: 16th May 2012
UK youth unemployment reached 17.1 per cent in March 2012.
Start Date: 16th May 2012
51,200 new mortgage loans were granted to home buyers in March 2012.
Start Date: 16th May 2012
17th
Building on 24,100 new homes began in the first quarter of 2012.
21st
The UK consumer price index was 3.1 per cent in April 2012.
Business Activity
Gross mortgage lending stood at an estimated £10.2 billion in April 2012.
22nd
Economic Statistics
4,000 businesses have high levels of growth in the UK.
Start Date: 22nd May 2012
Industry Indicators
UK farming sector profits rose by 25 per cent in 2011.
UK footfall in the three months leading to April 2012 decreased by 1.8 per cent.
UK house prices fell by 0.6 per cent in March 2012.
6,000 people made fraudulent compensation claims in 2011/12.
23rd
UK retail sales volumes fell by 2.3 per cent in April 2012.
Around 450,000 young people in the UK have no sustained work experience.
Start Date: 23rd May 2012
1,363 counterfeit electronics incidents were reported in 2011.
24th
UK economy shrank by 0.3 per cent in the first quarter of 2012.
Start Date: 24th May 2012
£4.32bn in outstanding tax has been collected since 2007.
UK economy is 14 per cent smaller than it would be without recession.
Start Date: 24th May 2012
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Industry Indicators
UK green economy grew by £5.4 billion in 2011.
Start Date: 25th May 2012
UK student visas offered to foreign nationals dropped by a fifth in Q1 of 2012.
US manufacturing growth fell to 53.9 in May 2012.
28th
60 per cent of Northern Irish home purchase loans in Q1 2012 were to first-time buyers.
UK homeowners could have overpaid a total of £90m in tax.
29th
Manchester businesses received £822m in 2011 due to conferences and events.
30th
There were 51,823 UK mortgage approvals in the UK in April 2012.
Property Indexes
April 2012 house prices fell 0.3 per cent from the previous month.
31st
2.89 million people were unemployed in France in April 2012.
Start Date: 31st May 2012
