The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has released figures for Q4 2010 that show that the UK economy contracted by 0.5% in this period. "Experts" had been predicting a rise of 0.5%.
Needless to say, the weather is being blamed for some of this fall.
However, cold snap or not (even allowing for the fact that the ONS invariably has to revise its figures), it is clear that any rush to raise rates (as being mooted by some "experts") would be folly indeed when the economy is so very clearly "fragile".
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