While the gloomy tone of recent data has left some commentators scrambling to downgrade their economic forecasts, our medium-term outlook is broadly unchanged. Admittedly, we now think consumer spending may come in a touch higher, at 1.7% y/y in 2005, and that the next interest rate cut is likely to happen in 2006 rather than in 2005.
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