Australia Retail Sales & International Trade (Jul.)

The stagnation in retail sales and the fall in the international trade surplus in July suggest that GDP growth in the third quarter will be weaker than the second-quarter’s 0.8%. With households’ incomes hardly rising at all, there is a real danger that consumption growth will slow sharply next year.

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