UK economy warms up a touch, Brexit hurdles ahead

Britain's economy warmed up a little in the second quarter from its winter slowdown of early 2018, but there was no sign of an end to its stuttering performance ahead of Brexit next year.Gross domestic product expanded 0.4 percent in the April-June period after a 0.2 percent rise in the first quarter, as expected in a Reuters poll of economists, the Office for National Statistics said.Sterling, shaken over the last week by growing talk of a no-deal Brexit, was little moved by the data which show