Business and Consumer Measures

Manufacturers’ input prices, or the prices British firms pay for raw materials, move with the pound. A weaker pound means higher costs for some businesses.Read more »Purchasing managers' indexes, or PMIs, are closely watched gauges of the health of different sectors of the economy. Markit surveys panels of senior purchasing executives, or similar, at hundreds of companies on whether various business conditions have improved, deteriorated or stayed the same compared with the previous month, and to provide reasons for any changes.The GfK consumer confidence survey is a U.K. benchmark of how the British public is feeling toward the economy.