DW Business - News July 7, 2024
well they're, they're certainly surprising and they're worse than the forecasts had predicted. but at the same time, what's really surprising, i think, is just the extent, you know, the, the depth of the slow down. it was obviously partially because it is largely because of the lock down in the, in the major cities, but it hit retail sales which were which the government has long relied on to to problem the economy. things like passenger car sales at em, 47 percent. and then, and that sort of feeds into other areas. for example, you know, the passengers, the car sales falling so much...