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CommentConstruction will not come out unscathed from Osborne's Budget, but it could've been worse
Construction hasn鈥檛 done as badly as some had feared as additional capital spending cuts are put in hold
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Output figures signal more bad news
The ONS released preliminary estimates of GDP for the first quarter of 2009 and it wasn't pretty. Estimates from macroeconomic forecasters had suggested that GDP would fall 1.5%-1.6% in Q1 compared to the previous quarter. In fact, it was 1.9%. Within the GDP fall in the first quarter, construction fell ...