Dominic White Quotations

We've started to see a gradual improvement in the labor market, and that will slowly feed through to consumer spending and boost services more widely.

We should see some small increases in retail sales over coming months, but without a decent pickup in the labor market and incomes, we won't see much of an improvement.

Consumers are still the weakest element within the recovery. European companies are still reluctant to hire, and it will take a long period of recovery before they start to do so.