June's 1.2% m/m decline in retail sales volumes, which only partially reversed the 1.9% m/m gain in the month before, confirms that, over the second quarter as a whole, household consumption growth rebounded. Nevertheless, the June decline supports our view that overall second-quarter GDP growth was a modest 1.5% annualised.
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