UK: Consumer Quite Active ahead of Brexit - ANZ
Research Team at ANZ, notes that the UK witnessed a very strong retail
sales data for April as the headline sales rose 1.3% m/m and March's
fall was revised significantly to -0.5% vs -1.3%.
Key Quotes
“It shows the consumer is quite active ahead of Brexit and the revision
to the March data suggest that some of the gloom over economic activity
slowing sharply ahead of Brexit has been unwarranted. If this better
tone is maintained, the data would tend to counter the need for another
interest rate cut, especially as oil and commodity prices have firmed.
The BoE only puts half of sterling's slide down to Brexit this year, the
rest has a lot to do with the economy, rates, etc. That may need to be
partly repriced. We still like GBP on the crosses.”
