Despite the modest 0.2% m/m rise in headline retail sales in June, the bigger 0.6% m/m gain in underlying control group sales is a bit more encouraging, although second-quarter consumption growth still appears to have been a muted 1.2% annualised. We calculate that second-quarter GDP growth was 1.5%.
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