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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ECONOMIC CALENDAR
| Time | Country | Indices | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08:30 | Producer & Import Prices | Mar | |
| 11:00 | Industrial Production | Feb | |
| 14:30 | Manufacturing Shipments | Feb | |
| 14:30 | Wholesale Sales | Feb | |
| 14:30 | Retail Sales | Mar | |
| 14:30 | NY Fed Empire State manufacturing index | Apr | |
| 16:00 | Business Inventories | Feb | |
| 16:00 | NAHB Housing Market Index | Apr | |
| 04:00 | Real GDP | 1 quarter |
