Tuesday, Mar 06, 2007
Consumer spending looking healthy
Guardian: Retail sales hold up despite rise in interest rates
Retail figures released by the British Retail Consortium were healthy, showing a 3.3% increase on February last year. This discredits the concerns voiced this week by many industry lobbyists who claimed that consumer spending was being seriously hit by the MPC's successive rises in the cost of borrowing.
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