The news comes after the boss of the Bank Of England, andrew bailey, said the economy had turned a corner, but wasnt yet in a strong recovery. For more on this im joined now byjackie bowie, head of europe at chatham financial. Where is this growth coming from . The good news is the Surprise Upside in gdp was actually very broad based. If you look across the different components of gdp we saw a good recovery in the Service Sector activity. Actually good recovery in Consumer Spending as well because obviously thats been a big focus with The Cost Of Living issue and of course then with inflation that we have seen over the last year as well. So i pretty broad based recovery and again it took some economists by surprise this morning. Are you breaking out the champagne now, are the recession time is completely behind us . It certainly looks like we completely behind us . It certainly looks like we have completely behind us . It certainly looks like we have exited completely behind us . It ce
Ian dennis was watching. A night to forgive for aston villa, a night that will be cherished by olympiacos, as they reach their first ever european final. Thoroughly deserved over the two legs where el kaabi followed up his hat trick with a goal in each half. This first from close range after ten minutes, this second after 78 minutes, following a long vr delay, traded bedlam inside the stadium. Villa rarely look like scoring, baileys effort tipped over before half time. They appeared to run out of steam in the second half. Olympiacos are only the second greek club to reach a european final after an absence of 53 years. And they will play for her and tina five miles up the road in athens. You will feel like home for their biggest night in the clubs history they will play fiorentina. Relegation matters in the English Premier League are going down to the wire. Nottingham forest, luton town and burnley are all set for a huge weekend. With just two games to go, only one of those sides can av
Become the big market for them also, so that s also part of the european calculations. D0 the european calculations. Do ou the european calculations. Do you seeing that the Balance Of Power shifting, then, and they have to adjust accordingly . I think the europeans are acutely aware of the change in the Balance Of Power. And remember, for europe today, one nightmare that they really worry about is the reelection of donald trump coming in for the reelection of donald trump coming infora the reelection of donald trump coming in for a second time as president of the united states, and they know that donald trump has absolutely no emotional connection to europe. He does not quite see the value of his european allies, and europe may have to get a much more difficult geopolitical environment. In that difficult geopolitical environment, when europe is looking for ways and means to possibly restrain russia at that point in time, maybe they can talk with china. And as you know china played an I
Not a single game segment of the russian football championship is spared from spectacular balls, and the twentyfifth round was no exception, which the fantastic ending of the match in kaliningrad was adorned; the baltic midfielder dmitry rybchinsky, who came on as a substitute , brought his team victory over the samara wings of the soviets with a cool volley, this was in the sixth minute of stoppage time, the result was 2 1. The match turned out to be incredible in terms of drama. Cska akhmat. The redblues were in the lead, but at the end of the match, the guests managed to tip the scales in their favor 2 1. At the same time , akhmat broke a series of four defeats. Brought a painful victory to the team from grozny unusual goal. Bernard berisha passed the ball to artyom timofeev, but he did not touch the ball. Twentyyearold goalkeeper of the hosts torob was clearly not ready for such a development of events. Even if you play at home and take the lead in the last seconds of the match. Th