{"id":23293,"date":"2011-08-18T09:22:32","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T13:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forexyard.com\/blog\/en\/?p=15360"},"modified":"2011-08-18T09:22:32","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T13:22:32","slug":"british-retail-sales-turn-sluggish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/08\/18\/british-retail-sales-turn-sluggish\/","title":{"rendered":"British Retail Sales Turn Sluggish"},"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>A report released Thursday morning by the UK Office of National Statistics revealed a sluggish month for retail sales in the island economy. The impact so far has been to drag on the already-downtrodden<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forexyard.com\/blog\/en\/2011\/08\/17\/british-mpc-unanimous-in-holding-rates-steady\/\"> British pound <\/a>(GBP).<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-15360\"><\/span>Expectations for the report were for a growth of roughly 0.3% in the ever-important retail sector. With today\u2019s figure coming in near 0.2%, the slow-down is only confirming what many were expecting for the upcoming quarter; mainly, that manufacturing demand and consumer spending will see steady declines.<\/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> A report released Thursday morning by the UK Office of National Statistics revealed a sluggish month for retail sales in the island economy. The impact so far has been to drag on the already-downtrodden British pound (GBP).<br \/>\nExpectations for the report&#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-23293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23293","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=23293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}