The muted rise in control group retail sales suggests that real consumption was little changed in September. While that still leaves real GDP growth on track to rise to a little over 3% annualised in the third quarter, it provides a weak handover to GDP growth this quarter and supports our forecast that GDP growth will slow to little more than 2% annualised.
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