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UK narrowly avoids recession again

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Predictions that the latest official figures would show that the UK economy had fallen into recession failed to materialise today, as the Office for National Statistics (ONS) announced that economic output had neither grown nor shrunk in the last quarter of 2022. There was a fall in output of 0.5% in December, but this was …

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