{"id":1355,"date":"2009-04-13T19:21:36","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T00:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=1355"},"modified":"2009-04-13T19:21:36","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T00:21:36","slug":"new-zealand-retail-sales-increase-in-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2009\/04\/13\/new-zealand-retail-sales-increase-in-february\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Retail Sales increase in February."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand Retail Sales rebounded slightly in February after a decline in January according to a report released by Statistics New Zealand today.\u00a0 Retail sales increased by 0.2 percent in February after falling by a revised 1.2 percent in January.\u00a0 February\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/250150blueglobe2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1356\" title=\"250150blueglobe2\" src=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/250150blueglobe2.gif\" alt=\"250150blueglobe2\" width=\"250\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>increase surpassed economic forecasts that were expecting a 0.5 percent decline for the month.<\/p>\n<p>Core retail sales, excluding automobile sales, fell by 0.1 percent in February following a revised increase of 0.2 percent in January. The rise in core sales also surpassed economic forecasts expecting a 0.1 percent decrease for the month.<\/p>\n<p>Contributing to the gain in the retail sales numbers was an increase in automotive fuel sales which rose by 6.7 percent in February after falling for four months in a row. Sales at supermarkets and grocery stores increased in February by 1.0 percent while &#8220;other retailing&#8221; rose by 3.2 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Negative contributors to the retail sales data were automobile sales which fell by 3.2 percent and sales of recreational goods which decreased by 4.9 percent. Also falling in February were &#8220;accommodation&#8221; sales with a decline of 4.2 percent and sales of clothing &amp; soft-goods with a fall of 4.0 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, April 13th &#8211; New Zealand Retail Sales rebounded slightly in February after a decline in January&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}