He adds: "Sales volumes are currently so low that the monthly house price statistics from any one single lender are virtually meaningless, and if you look at Nationwide's latest quarterly data, it in fact shows a 4% decline on the previous quarter".
Paul Polman, chief executive of Unilever, who has joined the B Team, has for several years been critical of the tyranny of quarterly earnings reports and famously said he no longer wanted short term investors to buy shares in the company.
Labour came a close second - only a few stories behind the Tories - according to Propeller Marketing Communications, which carried out the quarterly survey.
Its stellar quarterly growth figures contrasted sharply with the dire fortunes of high street chain French Connection, which now expects to plunge into the red this year.
This is the second voluntary publication of campaign donations by Yes Scotland and comes days before the SNP reveals its latest donors in an Electoral Commission quarterly report.
The government's new guardian of financial stability is expected to warn that the eurozone crisis is the main threat to confidence as it gives its quarterly update on the health of the financial system on Wednesday.
Simon Kirby, principal research fellow at the thinktank, said 0.7% was still a reasonable quarterly increase.
An hour after the labour market data, the Bank's governor Mark Carney presents policymakers' latest outlook for the economy in the quarterly Inflation Report.
The FPC's quarterly update – due on Wednesday – follows warnings from the International Monetary Fund last week that risks in the financial system were increasing.
Cameron used the quarterly meeting of his business advisory group to urge big firms to back his push for international action to crack down on the use of tax havens.
Lloyd Blankfein, the bank's chief executive, said he was pleased with the results, which showed the highest quarterly revenues in its investment banking arm since 2007 and the highest revenues in its equity division for clients since 2010.
