{"id":21915,"date":"2011-06-24T09:32:31","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T13:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forexyard.com\/blog\/en\/?p=14784"},"modified":"2011-06-24T09:32:31","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T13:32:31","slug":"italy-reports-unexpected-growth-in-retail-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/06\/24\/italy-reports-unexpected-growth-in-retail-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy Reports Unexpected Growth in Retail Sales"},"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>Following the retail sales and consumer spending reports of the past few weeks would leave many to believe that most nations are undergoing similar bearishness. This does not seem to be the case in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forexyard.com\/blog\/en\/2011\/06\/24\/euro-trades-back-and-forth-after-italian-bank-warning\/#%7B%22widget_height%22:%7B%22widget%22:%22registration%22,%22height%22:0%7D%7D\">Italy<\/a>, however.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-14784\"><\/span>Italian retail sales, published this morning at 9:00 GMT, revealed surprise growth of approximately 0.4% for the month of June. Forecasts were calling for a decline of about 0.1%, but today\u2019s reading reveals sudden strength in the consumer outlook in the southern European country. This figure has also added to the recent upswing in risk appetite connected with Germany\u2019s Ifo business report.<\/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> Following the retail sales and consumer spending reports of the past few weeks would leave many to believe that most nations are undergoing similar bearishness. This does not seem to be the case in Italy, however.<br \/>\nItalian retail sales, published this &#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-21915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21915","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=21915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}