Australia's June Retail Sales figure unexpectedly plummeted 1.4%, stunning economist expectations of an increase in the metric of 0.5%. June's publication of spending data continues to reduce any expectations of an economic revival. This comes just after a brief period in which consumer spending seemed to be showing a bottoming in the Australian economic downturn. June's figure is surely the worst of its kind since that of February's release.
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