The sharp rise in retail sales in March mainly reflects the surge in gasoline prices, but control group sales were also stronger than we anticipated. That leaves us to estimate that real consumption rose by 0.1% m/m again in March despite the large hit to real incomes, with the slowdown in first-quarter consumption growth not looking quite as bad as we feared.
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