UK Oct retail sales: Expect a muted 0.3% m/m rise - HSBC
|Analysts at HSBC Bank offer a brief preview of Wednesday’s UK retail sales report that will drop in at 0930 GMT.
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“UK retail sales volumes fell back by 0.8% m-o-m in September after a bumper summer. Indeed, we had expected that momentum to prove unsustainable.
Despite a pick-up in real wage growth, consumer confidence remains relatively low and the housing market is weak in some parts of the country.
For October, we expect a muted 0.3% m-o-m rise for total volumes including fuel, which would mean that the 3m/3m rate had slowed from 2.3% in July to 0.5% in October.”
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