Second quarter 2018 GDP measured -0.7% (quarter-on-quarter seasonally adjusted and annualised). The first quarter number was also downwardly revised from –2.2% to -2.6%. These figures imply a technical recession, although the SARB’s coincident measure show that the business cycle has been in a downward phase already since December 2013.
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