UK GfK Consumer Confidence data for November comes in at -24
- expected was -28, prior -30
- six-point increase was the biggest month-on-month improvement since March to April
Joe Staton, GfK's client strategy director:
- "Recent ups and downs in confidence have underlined the nation's topsy-turvy economic mood as encouraging news about falling inflation and wage growth is offset by high personal taxation, alongside costly fuel and energy bills"
Improving but still very net negative: