Despite the relatively strong 1.2% m/m increase in manufacturing volumes in December, we doubt that wholesale and retail trade were anywhere near as strong and suspect that overall monthly GDP growth was a much more modest 0.2% m/m. For the fourth-quarter as a whole, our calculation still suggest that GDP increased at a modest 1.5% annualised pace.
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