The recent strength in non-farm payroll data, which have showed solid gains in both employment and average weekly earnings, indicates that an improvement in third-quarter wages and salaries growth supported much stronger consumption growth. We estimate that this growth helped bolster third-quarter real GDP growth of close to 1.5% annualised, but still down from 1.9% in the second.
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