Money Minute Friday 17 January: UK weakness likely to continue

Today's Money Minute previews UK retail sales figures the UK, inflation data from Europe and industrial production from the US.

This morning in the UK we get retail sales data for December. Recent data from the UK has been weak and this is likely to continue. That said, as research group Capital Economics points out, the official economic data releases in general will not show any evidence (or otherwise) of a post-election bounce until at least next month.

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