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Prospects for consumer spending remain fairly bright

Global growth fears have re-emerged in recent weeks, but we think that prospects are still reasonably bright. In particular, conditions are in place for a period of steady, if unspectacular, growth in household spending. This should be sufficient to drive GDP growth in advanced economies of close to 2%.

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