{"id":21859,"date":"2011-06-22T02:14:20","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T06:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forexyard.com\/blog\/en\/?p=14739"},"modified":"2011-06-22T02:14:20","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T06:14:20","slug":"canadian-retail-sales-report-dismal-cad-weakened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/06\/22\/canadian-retail-sales-report-dismal-cad-weakened\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Retail Sales Report Dismal, CAD Weakened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forexyard.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/profile-pics\/8.jpg\" width=\"120\"  alt=\"printprofile\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Investors who were anticipating a modest growth in retail sales in Canada today were found in disarray after news revealed almost zero growth in that sector of the northern giant\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-14739\"><\/span>Forecasts had called for approximately a half-percent growth in both the core and nominal readings. Actual results for both, however, came in at 0% and 0.3%, respectively. The stagnation has so far put a damper on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forexyard.com\/blog\/en\/2011\/06\/17\/canada-subject-to-foreign-investment-surge\/#%7B%22widget_height%22:%7B%22widget%22:%22registration%22,%22height%22:0%7D%7D\">Canadian dollar\u2019s<\/a> (CAD) recent uptick, causing many investors to place additional funds into safe haven assets.<\/p>\n<p>Read more forex trading news on our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forexyard.com\/blog\/en\/\">forex blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Investors who were anticipating a modest growth in retail sales in Canada today were found in disarray after news revealed almost zero growth in that sector of the northern giant\u2019s economy.<br \/>\nForecasts had called for approximately a half-percent growt&#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-21859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21859","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=21859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}