(Finance) – slows down the growth of retail sales in the United States. In January, there was a negative variation of 0.9% on a monthly basis a 723.9 billion dollarsafter +0.7% of the previous month. The data communicated by theUS census bureauhowever, it is lower than the expectations of analysts who had estimated a drop of 0.2%.
On basis annual There was an increase of 4.2% after +4.36% of December.
The given “core”i.e. retail sales excluding cars, recorded a -0.4% on a monthly basis, under +0.7% of the previous month and +0.3% of the consensus.