Retail sales edged down in November but the preliminary estimate of a 0.5% m/m rise in December, despite the double-digit fall in gasoline prices, implies that sales volumes rose sharply at the end of 2022. That is another sign that the economy carried more momentum into 2023 than we initially expected.
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