{"id":416573,"date":"2026-05-07T17:13:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/416573\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T17:13:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:13:19","slug":"eurozone-march-retail-sales-0-1-vs-0-3-m-m-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/416573\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurozone March retail sales -0.1% vs -0.3% m\/m expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prior -0.2%; revised to -0.3%<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\" data-v-6bf95c48=\"\">Euro area retail sales dropped a little compared to the month before but the yearly estimate still reaffirms a steadier showing. The volume of retail trade was 1.2% higher in March this year relative to the same month last year. As for the monthly estimate, here&#8217;s the breakdown:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\" data-v-6bf95c48=\"\">Overall, it doesn&#8217;t really hint at much. Retail sales activity in the first quarter of the year feels relatively muted, declining in all three months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\" data-v-6bf95c48=\"\">That doesn&#8217;t make for a good backdrop heading into Q2 amid fears of higher price pressures and increased economic uncertainty set to weigh on household sentiment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\" data-v-6bf95c48=\"\">So, expect that to keep overall retail sales in a less optimistic spot as the US-Iran conflict drags on for a bit longer still.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prior -0.2%; revised to -0.3% Euro area retail sales dropped a little compared to the month before but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-416573","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\/416573","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=416573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}