The details of the July retail sales report were rather better than the modest 1.2% headline gain let on and suggest that, while the recovery has lost pace, the slowdown has not been as sharp as we had feared. The upshot is that the balance of risks to our forecast for a 30% annualised rebound in third-quarter real consumption now lies to the upside.
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