United States Retail Sales MoM

Retail Sales in the United States increased 0.10 percent in April of 2013 over the previous month. Retail Sales MoM in the United States is reported by the U.S. Census Bureau. Historically, from 1992 until 2013, the United States Retail Sales MoM averaged 0.38 Percent reaching an all time high of 6.70 Percent in October of 2001 and a record low of -3.10 Percent in October of 2008. In the United States, the Retail sales report provides an aggregated measure of sales of retail goods and services over a specific time period. In the United States, Retail sales are seasonal, volatile and relatively important to the overall economy. This page includes a chart with historical data for the United States Retail Sales.

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U.S. Retail Sales Up 0.1% in April
U.S. Census Bureau, duarte.ricardo@tradingeconomics.com  |  5/13/2013 1:58:39 PM


The U.S. Census Bureau announced on May 13th that advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for April, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes, were $419.0 billion, an increase of 0.1 percent from the previous month, and 3.7 percent above April 2012.

Total sales for the February through April 2013 period were up 3.7 percent from the same period a year ago. The February to March 2013 percent change was revised from -0.4 percent (±0.5%)* to -0.5 percent (±0.2%).

Retail trade sales were virtually unchanged (±0.5%)* from March 2013 and 3.6 percent (±0.7%) above last year. Nonstore retailers were up 15.4 percent (±2.0) from April 2012 and auto and other motor vehicle dealers were up 8.8 percent (±2.0) from last year.

Main contrubutors to the month over month increase were: motor vehicles (+1), electronics and appliances (+0.8), building materials (+1.5) and clothing (+1.2). The value sales of food and gasoline decreased.

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U.S. retail Sales Down 0.4% in March
The U.S. Census Bureau advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for March, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences (but not for price changes) were $418.3 billion, a decrease of 0.4 percent (±0.5%) from the previous month, but 2.8 percent (±0.7%) above March 2012. 2013-04-12

U.S. Retail Sales Rose 0.1% in January
The U.S. Census Bureau announced on February 13th that advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for January, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes, were $416.6 billion, an increase of 0.1 percent (±0.5%)* from the previous month and 4.4 percent (±0.7%) above January 2012. 2013-02-13

U.S. Retail Sales Jumps 1.1% in February
The advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for February, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes, were $421.4 billion, an increase of 1.1 percent (±0.5%) from the previous month and 4.6 percent (±0.7%) above February 2012. 2013-03-13




Retail Sales MoM | Notes

The Retail Sales report is an aggregated measure of the sales of retail goods over a certain period. Usually, the Retail sales report is based on a data sampling that is extrapolated to model an entire country. Generally, the retail sales report not only captures store sales, catalogue sales and other out of store sales but also breaks down sales figures into groups like food and beverages, clothing, and autos. The Retail sales report is one of the timeliest economic reports, providing data that is only a few weeks old. The most popular measure of retail sales is month over month, where the volume of retail sales in certain month is compared to the previous month. However, some countries prefer the year over year measure where the certain month is compared to the same month a year ago thus accounting for seasonality and other oscillations in retail sales data.






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