Households continued to accumulate “excess” savings in Q2 this year, with those held as cash and bank deposits equivalent to about 4% of GDP. We do not expect all of this to be spent, but some of it will. And it should also provide a small indirect boost to GDP by strengthening households’ balance sheets.
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