Industrial Production +0.5% m/m -9.3% y/y (expectations +0.2% m/m -10.10% y/y)

Manufacturing Output +0.9% m/m -10.1% y/y (expectations +0.3% m/m -11.1% y/y)

These figures prompting economists to predict better GDP data for Q3

As a result of the data sterling has posted a high of 1.6525 against the dollar and 0.8730 against the Euro