{"id":2825,"date":"2009-09-16T15:44:09","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T15:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmm.9dotdigital.ca\/?p=2825"},"modified":"2025-03-27T15:48:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T15:48:52","slug":"uk-vacancies-signalling-improving-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmm.9dotdigital.ca\/?p=2825","title":{"rendered":"UK vacancies signalling improving economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The three-month change in the stock of job vacancies returned to positive territory in August for the first time since March last year. Vacancies are a good coincident indicator and the 2% gain is historically consistent with quarterly GDP expansion of the order of 0.5% &ndash; see first chart.<\/p>\n<p>The recovery in vacancies, as well as the prior plunge, was signalled in advance by the Markit job placements index. The Market index climbed further to a 17-month high in August, suggesting the vacancies rise will gather pace &ndash; second chart.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"full-image-block ssNonEditable\"><span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/storage\/graphs\/uk-gdp-160909.gif?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1253116808082\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"full-image-block ssNonEditable\"><span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/storage\/graphs\/uk-vacancies-160909.gif?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1253116836660\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The three-month change in the stock of job vacancies returned to positive territory in August for the first time since March last year. Vacancies are a good coincident indicator and the 2% gain is historically consistent with quarterly GDP expansion of the order of 0.5% &ndash; see first chart. The recovery in vacancies, as well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-money-moves-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmm.9dotdigital.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmm.9dotdigital.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmm.9dotdigital.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmm.9dotdigital.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmm.9dotdigital.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmm.9dotdigital.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5134,"href":"https:\/\/mmm.9dotdigital.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2825\/revisions\/5134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmm.9dotdigital.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmm.9dotdigital.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmm.9dotdigital.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}