July's survey of manufacturers showed that sales outpaced market expectations by a wide margin. Most encouragingly, stronger volumes were behind this increase, reflecting the ongoing recovery in auto and petroleum production. This report suggests that the risks to our July GDP growth estimate of 0.3% m/m now lie on the upside and points to third-quarter GDP growth of 2.5% annualised.
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