That is the smallest year-over-year increase since the 12 months ended in December 1999.
But across industry sectors, health care has experienced one of the smallest year-over-year drops in activity.
The core index increased 2.6 percent in the 12 months ended in June, the smallest year-to-year gain since June 2011.
Its sales fell 24percentt from last May, the smallest year-over-year decline reported by any of the six largest automakers since October.
A closely watched inflation gauge, the core personal consumption expenditure deflator, posted its smallest year-over-year gain since February 2004.
Sales were 7percentt higher than those in the month a year earlier, the smallest year-over-year increase since December 1998.
In the year to the third quarter, the index of house prices compiled by the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight OFHEOO), a regulator, rose by 7.7%, the smallest year-on-year increase for three years.
Sales of cars and trucks in America showed their smallest year-on-year decline last month since September, when Lehman Brothers crashed although the drop was still a massive 31%.
The indicator, the core personal consumption expenditures price index — which excludes food and energy — rose 0.1percentt on the month and 1.9percentt on the year, the smallest year-on-year increase since March 2004.
Until this cycle, the smallest year-over-year rise in consumption spending was a 1.8percentt increase in the 12 months through April 1961, a period that also ended shortly after a recession concluded.
As the OBR notes, this would be "the second smallest year-on-year reduction since its peak in 2009-10, despithishis being the strongest year for GDP growth".A deficit of £90 billion is a good £50 billion more than Mr Osborne had been hoping for by now back in 2010.
