{"id":25976,"date":"2011-12-13T12:11:38","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T17:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=25976"},"modified":"2011-12-13T12:11:38","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T17:11:38","slug":"u-s-retail-sales-climb-less-than-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/12\/13\/u-s-retail-sales-climb-less-than-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Retail Sales Climb Less Than Expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"http:\/\/eplayer.clipsyndicate.com\/embed\/iframe?windows=1&#038;va_id=3100394&#038;show_title=0&#038;pf_id=7190\" width=\"590\" height=\"330\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Commerce Department reported retail spending in the U.S. rose slightly in November with a 0.2% increase followed by a sharper 0.6% increase in October. Analysts had expected a 0.6% increase in November. Sales excluding the volatile auto sector also rose 0.2% last month. Purchases by consumers account for as much as 70% of U.S. growth suggesting the economy will not grow as fast in the fourth quarter as forecasters were predicting. The November gain was the smallest since a similar rise in June. The figures come as Federal Reserve policy makers meet today on interest rates.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Commerce Department reported retail spending in the U.S. rose slightly in November with a 0.2% increase followed by a sharper 0.6% increase in October. Analysts had expected a 0.6% increase in November. Sales excluding the volatile auto sector also rose 0.2% last month. Purchases by consumers account for as much as 70% of U.S. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/12\/13\/u-s-retail-sales-climb-less-than-expected\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;U.S. Retail Sales Climb Less Than Expected&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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-25976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25976","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=25976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}