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The UK economy grew by 0.2% in the second quarter of the year, in line with economists' estimates, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said today.

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Economic growth forecasts of 3.4% for 2011 remain around the long-term average.

Investors with a high tolerance for risk are looking towards less developed ‘frontier markets' that are excluded from conventional emerging-market indices.

Javier Corominas, head of economic research at Record Currency Management, examines whether beta or risk premium returns are available in currency.

Worries over the eurozone debt crisis have prompted the Ernst & Young Item Club to cut its forecast for GDP growth this year from 1.8% to 1.4%.

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The output gap sounds like one of those obtuse concepts bandied about by professional economists to confuse the hell out of ordinary folk.

Chinese growth figures have dropped from 9.7% in the first quarter of this year to 9.5% in the second quarter, as the government struggles to contain rising inflation.