UK To Avoid Triple-Dip Recession, Says CBI

Despite cutting its growth forecast for this year, the CBI has said it believes the UK is in the clear when it comes to a triple-dip recession.

However, the leading business body expects the UK economy will grow 1% in 2013, less than its previous estimate of 1.4%.

It warned of the potential for a new "flare-up" in eurozone tensions, which would hold back confidence and keep growth in check.

Bu, a rise in job vacancies and an improvement in business sentiment since its last forecast suggested the economy would avoid another recession and grow 0.3% in the first quarter of this year.

CBI director-general John Cridland said: "We are beginning to see the return of organic growth, with clear signs that firms offering the right products into the right markets are growing sales and expanding.

"Recent business surveys also give grounds for cautious optimism about our forward prospects."

The CBI predicts that UK exports will be stronger this year.

Hopes that Britain will avoid another recession have also been boosted by recent surveys which showed the services sector returned to growth and manufacturing output rose at its fastest pace since September 2011 in January.

The CBI is forecasting that inflation will edge higher until mid-2013, but will fall back in the second half of the year, and will be close to the Bank of England's 2% target throughout 2014.

On another positive note, UK exports will be stronger this year, with the global economy likely to grow faster as growth in China picks up and the US economy continues its "relatively solid, if unspectacular recovery".

But conditions will still be difficult for households in 2013, given weak growth in household spending power and unemployment at around 7.8%.

Unemployment levels are unlikely to change significantly over the forecast period, at 2.5 and 2.42 million in 2013 and 2014 respectively.

Next year, the CBI is expecting growth of 2%, unchanged from its November forecast, whilst quarter-on-quarter growth is expected to be modest at around 0.5-0.6%.

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