UK: Focus on inflation and retail sales this week - BBH
|Analysts at BBH suggest that the UK will report January inflation and retail sales figures this week and will be in focus.
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“The UK's headline CPI is expected to fall 0.6%, but this is mostly seasonal. The year-over-year rate may have slipped to 2.9% from 3.0%. CPIH, the new preferred measure for statistical purposes, may have risen to 2.8% from 2.7%.”
“Retail sales are likely to have improved from the Scrooge-like 1.6% decline in retail sales in December, excluding auto fuel. A modest increase coupled with the base effect (January 2017 retail sales fell 0.5%) will lift the year-over-year pace. Retail sales gradually slowed last year and the average year-over-year pace was about 2%, though in Q4 17 it slowed to 1%.”
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