BUSINESS LIVE: GDP grows 0.6%; Evoke losses soar; AZN US drug enhance
The UK economy expanded by 0.6 per cent year-on-year in the second quarter, fresh data from the Office for National statistics shows.
Growth was in-line with forecasts in the three months to the end of June and followed an expansion of 0.7 per cent in the first quarter.
The FTSE 100 is down 0.1 per cent in early trading. Among the companies with reports and trading updates today are Evoke Group and AstraZeneca. Read the Thursday 15 August Business Live blog below.
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