UK retail sales logged only a partial recovery in February as the third lockdown continued to weigh on non-essential goods sales, data from the Office for National Statistics showed on Friday.
Retail sales volume, including auto fuel, posted a monthly growth of 2.1 percent, in contrast to January's 8.2 percent decrease. The pace of growth matched economists' expectations.
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