Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, including the UK GDP report for September, and the third quarter of 2025.
Although the Jaguar Land Rover attack clearly caused a drop in activity (its UK factories were closed through September), there has also been a wider slowdown.
This chart show how the rolling three month estimate of growth has weakened since the spring:
“Across the quarter as a whole manufacturing drove the weakness in production. There was a particularly marked fall in car production in September, reflecting the impact of a cyber incident, as well as a decline in the often-erratic pharmaceutical industry.
Continue reading…Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, including the UK GDP report for September, and the third quarter of 2025.Although the Jaguar Land Rover attack clearly caused a drop in activity (its UK factories were closed through September), there has also been a wider slowdown.This chart show how the rolling three month estimate of growth has weakened since the spring:“Across the quarter as a whole manufacturing drove the weakness in production. There was a particularly marked fall in car production in September, reflecting the impact of a cyber incident, as well as a decline in the often-erratic pharmaceutical industry. Continue reading…