{"id":1675229,"date":"2022-10-06T06:20:12","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T10:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1675229"},"modified":"2022-10-06T06:20:44","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T10:20:44","slug":"euro-zone-retail-sales-fall-as-expected-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/euro-zone-retail-sales-fall-as-expected-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Euro zone retail sales fall as expected in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Feuro-zone-retail-sales-fall-as-expected-in-august%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1675229&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>BRUSSELS (Reuters) \u2013     Euro zone retail sales fell in August, data showed on Thursday, pointing to a weakness in consumer demand and underlining expectations of an approaching recession.<\/p>\n<p>The European Union\u2019s statistics office Eurostat said retail sales in the 19 countries sharing the euro fell 0.3% month-on-month for a 2.0% year-on-year drop. <\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\">\n<\/div>\n<p>Economists polled by Reuters had expected a 0.4% monthly fall and a 1.7% year-on-year decline.<\/p>\n<p>The fall in retail sales, seen as a proxy for consumer demand, underlines economists\u2019 expectations that the euro zone is likely to go in to a recession in the coming quarters, hit by the energy price shock created by the Russian invasion of Ukraine1.<\/p>\n<p>The sales decline in August came despite a sharp rise in the volume of sales of car fuels during the holiday season, which rose 3.2% month-on-month and 5.1% year-on-year, but failed to offset falling sales of food and drinks and internet or mail order shopping.<\/p>\n<p>Non-food retail sales overall did rise by 0.2% in August, although that was down 3.0% from a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Jan Strupczewski)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/euro-zone-retail-sales\/attachment\/the-coronavirus-disease-covid-19-outbreak-in-germany\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI950E4-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI950E4-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS (Reuters) \u2013 Euro zone retail sales fell in August, data showed on Thursday, pointing to a weakness in consumer demand and underlining expectations of an approaching recession. 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