UK economic growth is expected to have accelerated modestly in the second quarter.
Economists are forecasting official figures due this week will show gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 0.4 per cent quarter-on-quarter in the three months to June, according to consensus estimates.
The growth rate slumped to 0.2% in the first quarter, with Brexit cited by economists as a drag and severe winter weather providing another challenge.
Andrew Goodwin, the lead UK economist at Oxford Economics, said: "The month-on-month outturns for GDP in April and May were strong, at 0.2% and 0.3% respectively, largely because of a rebound after March's snow-related disruption and a couple of very strong months for retail sales.
"But, with retail sales edging down in June, the service sector is likely to provide less impetus and ensure a weaker outturn for monthly GDP growth of around 0.1%.
"However, this would still generate quarterly growth of 0.4% for Q2 as a whole."
Analysts at Investec are also expecting that June GDP growth - marking the last month of the quarter - will have struggled to maintain the pace seen in May when the economy received a "double boost" from warm weather and the royal wedding.
"Principally, the expansion in construction output is almost certain to have
moderated from May's two-year high," Investec analysts led by Victoria Clarke said.
"The services sector may also have seen a more moderate pace of growth, as we have already seen in the retail sales figures.
"In contrast, we expect activity to pick up in the industrial sector."
The Bank of England - which days ago raised interest rates for the second time since the financial crisis - has made predictions in line with consensus for the second quarter.
It comes amid a resilient jobs market, and wage growth starts to outstrip inflation, although recent readings have been weaker than expected.
Retail sales have also bounced back, thanks in part to the recent heatwave spurring on shoppers.
Bank of England Governor Mark Carney has said previously that Britain's economy has a "new, lower speed limit".
Brexit negotiations and uncertainty over the deal - and indeed, any deal - being in place by the UK's withdrawal from the EU next March are still casting a cloud over the economy going forward.
The figures will be released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on Friday.
It will be the first quarterly reading from the ONS since the statistics agency overhauled its GDP releases to provide rolling monthly estimates of economic growth earlier this year.
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