{"id":108087,"date":"2019-08-30T15:45:18","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T13:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/08\/30\/uk-falls-to-bottom-of-g7-growth-league-business-live\/"},"modified":"2019-08-30T15:45:18","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T13:45:18","slug":"uk-falls-to-bottom-of-g7-growth-league-business-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=108087","title":{"rendered":"UK falls to bottom of G7 growth league \u2013 business live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as Britain posts the weakest GDP figures for the second quarter of 2019Canada beats forecasts with 0.9% growthUK lagged behind major rivals in Q2Mortgage approvals hit two-year highUK house prices flat in August 2.45pm BST The New York stock market has opened higher, following Europe\u2019s lead.The Dow Jones industrial average has gained 114 points, or 0.4%, on optimism that the US and China might make some progress in their ongoing trade dispute. 2.30pm BST Britain\u2019s growth rate looks less disastrous if you take a longer-term view, though.The UK economy grew by 1.2% in Q2 2019 compared to a year earlier, the ONS reported earlier this month. When you look in annual terms, UK GDP growth isn&#8217;t at the very bottom of the developed world league table, but it is comfortably in the bottom half pic.twitter.com\/7nXTuBZcS7 Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2019\/aug\/30\/uk-housing-market-subdued-brexit-confidence-markets-trade-war-pound-euro-business-live\" target=\"_blank\">UK falls to bottom of G7 growth league \u2013 business live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as Britain posts the weakest GDP figures for the second quarter of 2019Canada beats forecasts with 0.9% growthUK lagged behind major rivals in Q2Mortgage approvals hit two-year highUK house prices flat in August 2.45pm BST The New York stock market has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}