Australia Retail Sales (Jan.) & GDP Partials (Q4)

Today’s data releases suggest that GDP growth was a touch stronger than we had expected in the fourth quarter of last year. That said, the smaller than anticipated rise in retail sales in January indicates that the probable rebound in real consumption growth last quarter won’t be sustained in the first quarter.

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