Advanced report shows US retail trade sales up 0.2% in September
15 Oct '05
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The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for September, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes, were $351.5 billion, an increase of 0.2 percent (±0.7%)* from the previous month and up 6.5 percent (±0.8%) from September 2004.
Total sales for the July through September 2005 period were up 8.3 percent (±0.5%) from the same period a year ago. The July to August 2005 percent change was revised from –2.1 percent (±0.7%) to –1.9 percent (±0.3%).
Retail trade sales were up 0.2 percent (±0.7%)* from August and were up 6.7 percent (±1.0%) above last year. Gasoline station sales were up 34.8 percent (±3.3%) from September 2004 and sales of nonstore retailers were up 11.1 percent (±3.6%) from last year.
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