{"id":234315,"date":"2026-01-15T08:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T08:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/234315\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T08:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T08:53:08","slug":"u-s-retail-sales-surge-past-forecasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/234315\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Retail Sales Surge Past Forecasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> (<a style=\"color:black\" href=\"https:\/\/menafn.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MENAFN<\/a>) American retail trade climbed 0.6% month-over-month in November, rebounding from October&#8217;s 0.1% contraction, US Census Bureau data revealed Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Market analysts had forecast a 0.5% increase, while aggregate trade volume hit $735.9 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Sporting goods, musical instrument, and book stores led the surge with 1.9% gains, followed by miscellaneous store retailers at 1.7% and gasoline stations posting 1.4% growth.<\/p>\n<p>Building and garden suppliers advanced 1.3%, motor vehicle dealers climbed 1%, clothing stores rose 0.9%, and food services &amp; drinking places increased 0.6%.<\/p>\n<p>Conversely, general merchandise and electronics stores showed no movement, while furniture store sales declined 0.1%.<\/p>\n<p>Core Retail Metrics Advance<br \/>Retail sales excluding food services, automotive dealers, construction material outlets, and petrol stations\u2014the key measure used for GDP calculations\u2014advanced 0.4%.<\/p>\n<p>Year-over-year, retail sales expanded 3.3%.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color:black\" href=\"https:\/\/menafn.com\/1110601835\/US-Retail-Sales-Surge-Past-Forecasts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>MENAFN15012026000045017169ID1110601835<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<p> Legal Disclaimer:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/menafn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MENAFN<\/a> provides the<br \/>\n              information \u201cas is\u201d without warranty of any kind. We do not accept<br \/>\n              any responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, images,<br \/>\n              videos, licenses, completeness, legality, or reliability of the information<br \/>\n              contained in this article. If you have any complaints or copyright<br \/>\n              issues related to this article, kindly contact the provider above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(MENAFN) American retail trade climbed 0.6% month-over-month in November, rebounding from October&#8217;s 0.1% contraction, US Census Bureau data&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-234315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}