{"id":23160,"date":"2011-08-12T09:36:48","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T13:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forexyard.com\/blog\/en\/?p=15292"},"modified":"2011-08-12T09:36:48","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T13:36:48","slug":"us-retail-sales-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/08\/12\/us-retail-sales-rising\/","title":{"rendered":"US Retail Sales Rising"},"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>The afternoon reports on nominal and core retail sales in the United States adds to recent notions of an economy not entering a second recession, as many pundits had expected. Employment data these past few weeks have shown the US economy adding jobs in greater numbers this summer; today\u2019s retail sales data bolsters this data by showing consumers boosting their spending levels, despite frantic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forexyard.com\/blog\/en\/2011\/08\/10\/fed-says-us-interest-rates-to-stay-low\/\">expectations of economic turmoil<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-15292\"><\/span>The news has helped the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forexyard.com\/blog\/en\/2011\/08\/08\/us-dollar-still-a-safe-haven-after-rating-downgrade\/\">US dollar<\/a> (USD) hold value where it may have plummeted instead. Swings in stock market values this week have made forex trading more interesting, given the heightened volatility that springs forth during a period of flight into Treasuries and Gold. Today\u2019s data strengthens the idea that US Treasuries will rise, likely pushing the USD higher in today\u2019s late trading.<\/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> The afternoon reports on nominal and core retail sales in the United States adds to recent notions of an economy not entering a second recession, as many pundits had expected. Employment data these past few weeks have shown the US economy adding jobs &#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-23160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23160","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=23160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}