{"id":537069,"date":"2026-07-07T07:24:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T07:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/537069\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T07:24:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T07:24:19","slug":"eurozone-retail-sales-see-a-modest-bounce-back-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/537069\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurozone retail sales see a modest bounce back in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Retail sales +0.2% vs +0.3% m\/m expectedPrior -0.4%; revised to -0.3%Retail sales +1.6% vs +1.6% y\/y expectedPrior +1.0%; revised to +0.9%<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\" data-v-6bf95c48=\"\">Euro area retail sales bounced back in May after a more sluggish showing in April before this. The rebound was more broad-based with an increase in the volume of retail trade for food, drinks, tobacco (+0.6%) and also for non-food products (+0.1%). Meanwhile, there was a drop in the the volume of retail trade for automotive fuel in specialised stores (-0.5%).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\" data-v-6bf95c48=\"\">The annual estimate continues to show that retail sales activity is holding up so far this year with an increase of 1.6%. While there might be concerns on higher inflation hitting at consumption, it&#8217;s not quite as bad just yet. That being said, we will have to see how the trend develops over the next few months and past the summer especially.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Retail sales +0.2% vs +0.3% m\/m expectedPrior -0.4%; revised to -0.3%Retail sales +1.6% vs +1.6% y\/y expectedPrior +1.0%;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-537069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}