The latest retail sales data were much weaker than most had anticipated and will add to growing concerns about the health of the household sector. In particular, the sizeable slowdown in real retail sales growth in the first quarter suggests that real consumption growth eased notably. And the outright fall in nominal retail sales in March means there wasn’t any momentum in spending going into the second quarter either.
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