{"id":41081,"date":"2026-02-12T07:11:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T07:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=41081"},"modified":"2026-02-12T07:11:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T07:11:49","slug":"uk-economy-ekes-out-0-1-growth-in-the-fourth-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=41081","title":{"rendered":"UK economy ekes out 0.1% growth in the fourth quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"RegularArticle-ArticleBody-5\" data-module=\"ArticleBody\" data-test=\"articleBody-2\" data-analytics=\"RegularArticle-articleBody-5-2\"><span class=\"HighlightShare-hidden\" style=\"top:0;left:0\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"InlineImage-imageEmbed\" id=\"ArticleBody-InlineImage-108059221\" data-test=\"InlineImage\">\n<div class=\"InlineImage-wrapper\">\n<div>\n<p>Westminster, South Bank, London, England.<\/p>\n<p>Scott E Barbour | The Image Bank | Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<p>The U.K. economy grew a meager 0.1% in the fourth quarter, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/economy\/grossdomesticproductgdp\/bulletins\/gdpfirstquarterlyestimateuk\/octobertodecember2025\" target=\"_blank\">preliminary figures<\/a>\u00a0from the Office for National Statistics on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Economists polled by Reuters expected the economy to have grown 0.2% over the October-December period,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/11\/13\/uk-q3-gdp-2025.html?utm_campaign=trueanthem&amp;utm_content=main&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=linkedin\">following 0.1% growth in the third quarter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Month-on-month, the economy expanded 0.1% in December, down from an unexpected 0.2% expansion the previous month. <\/p>\n<p><em><strong>This is a breaking news story, please check for further updates.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/02\/12\/uk-q4-gdp-economy.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Westminster, South Bank, London, England. Scott E Barbour | The Image Bank | Getty Images The U.K. economy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":41082,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-markets","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}