Consumption growth has been remarkably stable at around 2% since the recovery began in mid-2009. Nevertheless, we anticipate that the pick-up in income growth and past gains in householdwealth will fuel an acceleration in consumption growth to around 2.7% at an annualised pace inthe second half of this year and in 2015.
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