{"id":436156,"date":"2026-08-13T13:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T06:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/uk-q2-preliminary-gdp-0-4-vs-0-4-q-q-expected-436156\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T13:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T06:00:11","slug":"uk-q2-preliminary-gdp-0-4-vs-0-4-q-q-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/uk-q2-preliminary-gdp-0-4-vs-0-4-q-q-expected-436156\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Q2 preliminary GDP +0.4% vs +0.4% q\/q expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Q2 preliminary GDP +0.4% vs +0.4% q\/q expected<\/li>\n<li>Prior +0.6%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">The UK economy is seen posting modest growth in Q2, matching with expectations.\u00a0In output terms, growth in the latest quarter was mainly driven by an increase of 0.5% in the services sector. Meanwhile,\u00a0the construction sector increased by 0.3% and production output showed no growth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">Compared to the same quarter last year, UK GDP is estimated to be 1.2% higher in Q2 this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">The slower growth compared to the first quarter is largely also due to services output easing a touch. That being said, it&#8217;s still a solid showing; all things considered. Services output in Q2 increased by 0.5%, following a 0.8% increase in Q1. But compared to the same quarter a year ago, services output is estimated to be 1.5% higher. So, that better puts things into context.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">All in all, it&#8217;s not one to really change the BOE outlook whatsoever. So, carry on as you will.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">The June monthly report was also released at the same time and can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/investinglive.com\/news\/uk-economy-posts-unexpected-growth-in-june-on-stronger-services-sector-showing\/\" rel=\"follow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">\n<p>                            This article was written by Justin Low at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q2 preliminary GDP +0.4% vs +0.4% q\/q expected Prior +0.6% The UK economy is seen posting modest growth in Q2, matching with expectations.\u00a0In output terms, growth in the latest quarter was mainly&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}