After shoring up economic growth over the second half of last year, economic indicators suggest that household consumption will be less supportive to growth over the first half of this year and possibly beyond. With policymakers threatening more loudly to remove monetary policy stimulus and further tighten mortgage lending rules, it is quite possible that household spending growth might turn out to be even weaker than we have assumed for this year.
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