The solid 1.8% m/m rebound in August's manufacturing sales volumes, partially due to volatility in petroleum and coal products, and upward revisions to July's data are encouraging. Overall, this helps to alleviate some of our earlier concerns about third-quarter GDP growth, although it still appears to have been only around 1.5% annualised, which would be below 2% potential growth.
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