RETAIL SALES
An aggregated measure of the sales of retail goods over a stated time period, typically based on a data sampling that is extrapolated to model an entire country. In the U.S., the retail sales report is a monthly economic indicator compiled and released by the Census Bureau and the Department of Commerce. The report covers the previous month, and is released about two weeks after the month-end. Comparisons are made against historical data; year-over-year comparisons are the most-reported metric because they account for the seasonality of consumer-based retail.
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| Time | Country | Indices | Period |
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| 07:00 | Economy Watchers Survey | Jan | |
| 10:00 | SECO Consumer Confidence | Jan | |
| 11:30 | Sentix Investor Confidence | Feb | |
| 22:15 | FOMC Member Raphael W. Bostic Speaks | ||
| 01:30 | Westpac Consumer Sentiment | Feb | |
| 01:50 | M2 Money Supply + CD | Jan | |
| 02:01 | BRC Retail Sales Monitor | Jan | |
| 02:30 | NAB Business Confidence | Jan | |
| 08:00 | Prelim Machine Tool Orders | Jan |


