The jobs figures and better than expected figures from the service sector helped drive US stock markets to all time highs this week.
Darren Morgan of the ONS agreed that most of the revisions stemmed from an improvement in consumer spending and better figures from the financial services sector.
Bernanke, who has dismissed fears of inflation, said last week that he could embark on QE3 after a succession of weak figures from the US services sector alongside a drop in manufacturing.
His appointment was announced ahead of figures from the Financial Ombudsman, Service due on Tuesday, detailing the latest complaints data.
The 7percentt increase, however, falls short of the performance in the past several years, when percentage increases for volume were in the double digits, figures from the listing service show.
Figures from the admissions service, Ucas, suggest there are 16,000 above the cap, meaning universities will have to pay back £59.2m next year.
Over the last decade, the number of so-called unique listeners — those who tune in at least once a week — has impressively increased: to 25 million from 12.5 million, according to figures from the ratings service Arbitron provided by NPR.
However, figures from the ombudsman service show that Barclays, Bank of Scotland, Lloyds TSB, MBNA and Royal Bank of Scotland all had large numbers of insurance complaints upheld in the first six months of this year, suggesting they could be among those with most cases to review.
Record numbers of students have applied for the most competitive university courses, according to figures from the admissions service Ucas.
There have been drops from individual countries, but the overall figures from the admissions service Ucas, published last month, show that applications from overseas students are higher than last year.
