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From <em>WSJ.com<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The [UK] economy shrank 0.7% between April and June, dragged down by weakness in the construction industry, according to official data released Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>An extra day&#8217;s holiday in June for the Queen&#8217;s Diamond Jubilee had a significant negative impact on the economy, the data showed, but an official said it was too early to quantify the full effect at this stage. Unusually wet weather during the quarter may also have played a role.<\/p>\n<p>It is the third quarter in a row that gross domestic product has shrunk and the largest quarterly contraction since early 2009.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10000872396390443477104577548361202287278.html?mod=WSJ_economy_LeftTopHighlights\">U.K. Stumbles, Fueling Austerity Debate &#8211; WSJ.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More evidence that imposing fiscal austerity while the private sector is deleveraging will aggravate rather than cure the problem. From WSJ.com: The [UK] economy shrank 0.7% between April and June, dragged down by weakness in the construction industry, according to official data released Wednesday. An extra day&#8217;s holiday in June for the Queen&#8217;s Diamond Jubilee &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2012\/07\/26\/u-k-stumbles-fueling-austerity-debate-wsj-com\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;U.K. Stumbles, Fueling Austerity Debate &#8211; WSJ.com&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[993,1171,1404],"class_list":["post-4956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk-europe-countries-regions","tag-deleveraging","tag-economic-contraction","tag-fiscal-austerity"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>U.K. Stumbles, Fueling Austerity Debate - WSJ.com - the patient investor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"U.K. Stumbles, Fueling Austerity Debate - WSJ.com - the patient investor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"More evidence that imposing fiscal austerity while the private sector is deleveraging will aggravate rather than cure the problem. 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