Summary: Retail sales down 2.7% in December, worse than expected; up 0.8% on 12-month basis; ANZ: underlying trend in nominal retail sales looks weak; ACGB yields fall; rate-cut expectations firm a touch; ANZ: popularity of Black Friday sales changing spending patterns during end-of-year trading period; largest influence on result again from household goods sales. Growth figures of domestic retail sales spent most of the 2010s at levels below the post-1992...