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Britain's economy slid into its second recession since the financial crisis after official data unexpectedly showed a fall in output in the first three months of 2012, piling pressure on Prime Minister David Cameron's embattled coalition government.
The Office for National Statistics said Britain's gross domestic product fell 0.2 percent in the first quarter of 2012 after contracting by 0.3 percent at the end of 2011, confounding forecasts for 0.1 percent growth.
Most
economists had expected Britain's $2.4 trillion economy to eke out
modest growth in the early 2012, but these forecasts were upset by the
biggest fall in construction output in three years coupled with anaemic
service sector growth and a fall in industrial output. MORE.....................
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