Production data for June confirm that the industrial sector saw its biggest quarterly expansion for three years in the second quarter. Furthermore, while the retail sales and confidence data, also released today, suggest that the consumer sector may have lost a bit of momentum, they still point to consumption growth rebounding in the second quarter and growing at a healthy pace over the rest of the year.
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