London's Economy Today - Issue 39 - November 2005

The overview

• dynamic London ranked as top financial centre
• a nationwide slowdown?
• news of the world economy

Economic indicators

• London firms continued to expand their output of goods and services in October 2005
• the volume of new orders to London private sector firms has been rising for more than two years
• annual house price growth in London slowed to 1.7% in Q3 2005 from 3.5% in Q2

Creative data for London

• GLA Economics is finalising work on a pilot study to get local area data about London’s Creative industries
• the data will provide the GLA and the LDA with more information about the creative sector in London
• it should help inform the development of projects, especially local area projects, in this field

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