{"id":28228,"date":"2012-03-14T13:33:05","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T17:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=28228"},"modified":"2012-03-14T13:33:05","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T17:33:05","slug":"retail-sales-in-february-rise-to-a-5-month-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/03\/14\/retail-sales-in-february-rise-to-a-5-month-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Retail Sales in February Rise to a 5-Month High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"grabDiv1767162\"><object id=\"GrabPlayer1767162\" width=\"542\" height=\"304\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" align=\"middle\" data=\"http:\/\/player.grabnetworks.com\/swf\/GrabOSMFPlayer.swf?id=1767162&#038;content=v8b66f271c34f3eb64b3e5cfbc929f8f27da2a2b5&#038;tgt=grabnetworks\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"\/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"menu\" value=\"false\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"\/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/player.grabnetworks.com\/swf\/GrabOSMFPlayer.swf?id=1767162&#038;content=v8b66f271c34f3eb64b3e5cfbc929f8f27da2a2b5&#038;tgt=grabnetworks\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<div id=\"overlay-adzone\" style=\"overflow:hidden; position:relative\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>New economic data released today, showing retail sales have climbed in February to a five-month high. The Commerce Department reported Tuesday that retail sales rose a seasonally adjusted 1.1% to $407.8 billion.The rise is from an upwardly revised 0.6% increase in January. Excluding autos, retail sales advanced 0.9% last month adding to January&#8217;s upwardly revised 1.1% gain.This data comes before a Federal Reserve policy meeting and subsequent statement which is expected at 2:15 pm. Even with these numbers, economists still aren&#8217;t anticipating any extreme shifts in policy.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/cache.thenewsroom.com\/financial_news_network\/2012\/03\/14\/1_wus5cdkr_thumb.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p><!--post_img[http:\/\/cache.thenewsroom.com\/financial_news_network\/2012\/03\/14\/1_wus5cdkr_preview.jpg]--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New economic data released today, showing retail sales have climbed in February to a five-month high. The Commerce Department reported Tuesday that retail sales rose a seasonally adjusted 1.1% to $407.8 billion.The rise is from an upwardly revised 0.6% increase in January. Excluding autos, retail sales advanced 0.9% last month adding to January&#8217;s upwardly revised &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/03\/14\/retail-sales-in-february-rise-to-a-5-month-high\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Retail Sales in February Rise to a 5-Month High&#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-28228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28228","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=28228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}