EZ retail sales fall in July - Eurostat
By Frank Prenesti
Date: Friday 04 Aug 2023
(Sharecast News) - Eurozone retail sales fell unexpectedly in June as inflationary pressures started to weigh on consumer behaviour, official data revealed on Friday.
Sales fell 0.3% month on month in June, compared with a 0.6% rise in May, according to revised figures published by the European Union statistics agency, Eurostat. On an annual basis, retail sales fell 1.4% in June.
"The slide in retail sales in June was much worse than the increase we had expected, but the significant upward revision to May's headline-previously 0%-toughens the blow and means retail sales fared better than we forecast in Q2 overall," said economists at Pantheon Macroeconomics.
Reporting by Frank Prenesti for Sharecast.com
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