{"id":24814,"date":"2026-09-11T07:38:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T05:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/11\/uk-economy-defies-forecasts-with-surprise-0-4-growth-in-july\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T07:38:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T05:38:16","slug":"uk-economy-defies-forecasts-with-surprise-0-4-growth-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/11\/uk-economy-defies-forecasts-with-surprise-0-4-growth-in-july\/","title":{"rendered":"UK economy defies forecasts with surprise 0.4% growth in July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome boost for chancellor with unexpected rise put down to rapid growth of AI in services sector outweighing Iran war fallout <\/p>\n<p>The UK economy grew in July as the rapid growth of AI appeared to outweigh the economic damage from the Iran war, in a welcome boost for John Healey before next month\u2019s budget.<\/p>\n<p>Figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed a surprise 0.4% increase in gross domestic product (GDP), compared with 0.3% growth in June. City economists had forecast zero growth.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/sep\/11\/uk-economy-defies-forecasts-with-surprise-04-growth-in-july\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/f49d9e9a8437e74e903d1a39fc4f8fe65f8a42e0\/312_0_3107_2487\/master\/3107.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d21c7b0f0f632e96af9ef4e8dc870464\" title=\"UK economy defies forecasts with surprise 0.4% growth in July\" \/>Welcome boost for chancellor with unexpected rise put down to rapid growth of AI in services sector outweighing Iran war fallout<br \/>\nThe UK economy grew in July as the rapid growth of AI appeared to outweigh the economic damage from the Iran war, in a welcome boost for John Healey before next month\u2019s budget.<br \/>\nFigures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed a surprise 0.4% increase in gross domestic product (GDP), compared with 0.3% growth in June. City economists had forecast zero growth. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome boost for chancellor with unexpected rise put down to rapid growth of AI in services sector outweighing Iran war fallout The UK economy grew in July as the rapid growth of AI appeared to outweigh the economic damage from the Iran war, in a welcome boost for John Healey before next month\u2019s budget. Figures &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/11\/uk-economy-defies-forecasts-with-surprise-0-4-growth-in-july\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK economy defies forecasts with surprise 0.4% growth in July<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24814"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}