China Retail sales for August: 7.5% y/y (expected +7.9%)

As part of the activity data release for the month

Retail sales for August miss at 7.5% y/y

• expected +7.9% y/y, prior 7.6%

YTD comes in at 8.2% y/y

• vs expected at 8.3%, prior 8.3% also

I'll have more on this in a summary post