News and Press
Read how the global media are using Fable’s Award-winning data
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UK businesses report strong trade after lockdown reopening
In the first three days after the reopening, consumer spending was up 10 per cent compared with the same days of that week in 2019, up from nearly minus 30 per cent in the week ending April 11, according to Fable Data, a company that tracks credit card transactions.
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Growth figures don’t tell us what we really need to know about economy
Of more potential use is research from the likes of University of Nottingham professor John Gathergood and his colleagues using real time credit card spending figures from data firm Fable, giving a more recent picture of where the spending is happening. The authors rightly point out that with such surgical data on spending available –…
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Mapping and addressing COVID-19 regional inequalities using real-time spending data
A recent UK government aim is to address such disparities through policies to ‘level-up’ the regions that historically have experienced less benefits arising from globalisation and national economic growth. This is a particular pertinent issue for the UK, which is among the most geographically unequal developed economies. In our research, we use granular, real-time data…