{"id":552748,"date":"2026-07-16T13:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T13:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/552748\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T13:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T13:40:12","slug":"united-states-retail-sales-rise-0-2-in-june-to-768-6-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/552748\/","title":{"rendered":"United States Retail Sales rise 0.2% in June to $768.6 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Retail Sales in the United States (US) rose by 0.2% on a monthly basis in June to $768.6 billion, the US Census Bureau reported on Thursday. This print followed the 1% increase recorded in May and came in line with the market expectation. On a yearly basis, Retail Sales were up 6.7%.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Total sales for the April 2026 through June 2026 period were up 6.4 percent (\u00b10.5 percent) from the same period a year ago. The April 2026 to May 2026 percent change was revised from up 0.9 percent (\u00b10.4 percent) to up 1.0 percent (\u00b10.2 percent),&#8221; the press release noted.<\/p>\n<p>Market reaction to US Retail Sales<\/p>\n<p>The US Dollar (USD) showed no immediate reaction to these figures. At the time of press, the USD Index was up 0.1% on the day at 100.60.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Retail Sales in the United States (US) rose by 0.2% on a monthly basis in June to $768.6&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-552748","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\/552748","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=552748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}