{"id":3421,"date":"2009-08-20T14:01:14","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T19:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=3421"},"modified":"2009-08-20T14:01:14","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T19:01:14","slug":"uk-retail-sales-increase-in-july-for-second-straight-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2009\/08\/20\/uk-retail-sales-increase-in-july-for-second-straight-month\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Retail Sales increase in July for second straight month."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By CountingPips.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Retail Sales data was released today out of the United Kingdom and showed that retail sales increased in July for the second month in a row according to a report by National Statistics. July&#8217;s retail sales increased by 0.4 percent following a revised increase of 1.3 percent in <a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/250150ShoppingCart1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3422\" title=\"250150ShoppingCart\" src=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/250150ShoppingCart1.gif\" alt=\"250150ShoppingCart\" width=\"250\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>June. July&#8217;s annual rate of increase was 3.3 percent higher than the July 2008 level following June&#8217;s annual increase of a revised 3.1 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Market forecasts had expected an approximate monthly increase of 0.4 percent in July and a 2.7 percent annual increase.<\/p>\n<p>Contributing to the sales gain was a increase in household goods stores by 4.5 percent and other stores sales increased by 1.1 percent.\u00a0 Overall, predominantly non-food stores increased by 1.1 percent in July while predominantly food stores declined by 1.0 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, August 20th &#8211; July&#8217;s annual rate of increase was 3.3 percent higher than the July 2008 level&#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-3421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421","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=3421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}