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Consumer Prices (Feb.) & Retail Sales (Jan.)

The recent decline in unit labour cost growth suggests that February’s drop in one of the Bank’s measures of core inflation is a sign of things to come. Although retail sales volumes performed a touch better than we expected in January, the economy still appears to have stagnated at the start of the year.

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