Today's headline data for June were bad, with the unemployment rate unexpectedly rising from 5.2% to 5.3% and industrial production unexpectedly falling by 1.5% m/m. However, these figures probably overstate the extent of the inevitable slowdown from the average annualised GDP growth of close to 5% seen in the last two quarters.
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