London’s Economy Today editorial – January 2025 January 30th, 2025 by Daryl Rozario, Ali Ögcem, Gordon Douglass and Sixia Zhang UK inflation slows marginally in December Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation slowed in December, according to new data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). CPI inflation rose by 2.5% in the 12 months to December 2024, down from 2.6% in the 12 months to November (Figure 1). Figure 1: This drop in inflation had…
London’s Economy Today – August 2021 editorial August 26th, 2021 by Mike Hope and Jasmine Farquharson London’s economy recovers strongly although weaknesses remain This month the Office for National Statistics (ONS) released its first estimate of London GDP growth for Q4 2020 and GLA Economics published its latest scenarios for the London economy. The ONS data show that the drop in London’s economic output in 2020 was less deep than for…