Today’s retail sales report will give markets an insight into sales of retail goods and services for October.
In September, retail trade was unchanged and missed market expectations of a 0.2 percent increase. This was mainly due to high inflation and rising borrowing costs which hit consumer demand.
Markets are expecting today’s figures to come in at 0.9%
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