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Christmas cheer

Some Christmas cheer. UK growth has unexpectedly risen in the third quarter from 0.5% to 0.6%. Manufacturing is up 6%. Meanwhile sterling is back to where it was at the beginning of the year against the Euro.

Our general manager, Mike Mitchell, has highlighted reasons to be positive for 2012 in the most recent edition of Informed. It seems that bad news will always rise to the fore with good news often lagging behind but as all investor relations professionals know, markets are hugely driven by sentiment so let's not let the persistently gloomy- and in particular the press – always talk down the UK economy!