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Retail sales rise on the month, but crash 4.9% year-on-year

As a pleasant surprise, UK retail sales for April came in better than forecast. Economists had expected both numbers to be considerably worse than they were.

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In the event, that drop of 4.9% year-over-year was not as bad as the 7.2% slump expected and against March the sales rose 1.4% where a 0.2% drop had been pencilled in.

However, as Jeremy Naylor explains the worst is still expected to come.

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