{"id":853766,"date":"2026-08-13T12:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T12:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/853766\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T12:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T12:36:13","slug":"uk-economy-grew-by-0-4-between-april-and-june-figures-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/853766\/","title":{"rendered":"UK economy grew by 0.4% between April and June, figures show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Resilience with an asterisk&#8217;: Experts say it&#8217;ll be difficult to keep momentum goingpublished at 07:40 BST<\/p>\n<p>07:40 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1l98ssq-Contributor etflsgg2\">Alex Daniel<br \/>Business reporter<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Experts are generally agreeing that the consumer side of the economy &#8211; things like shops, pubs and other businesses &#8211; have done surprisingly well in the face of things like the Iran war. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That could be partly to do with the good weather this summer, according to Yael Selfin, chief economist at KPMG, who says consumers have weathered economic shocks \u201cremarkably well&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But experts also broadly agree that it will be difficult for this momentum to continue, especially with positives like the World Cup out of the way. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Suren Thiru, chief economist for the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, calls this \u201cresilience with an asterisk\u201d, pointing out that these are all temporary factors rather than \u201cgenuine momentum\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He says the \u201cgrowing financial squeeze\u201d sparked by the Iran war means this upturn will be \u201cdifficult to sustain\u201d. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Resilience with an asterisk&#8217;: Experts say it&#8217;ll be difficult to keep momentum goingpublished at 07:40 BST 07:40 BST&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":853767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-853766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}