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Retail Sales (May)

Households are back to their free spending ways, with the strength of May’s retail sales figures implying that second-quarter real consumption growth (and GDP growth for that matter) will now be more than 4% annualised. With the benefit of the tax cuts, strong employment growth and the gradual acceleration in hourly wage growth, consumption growth should remain strong going into the second half of this year.

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