By Jill Mislinski
The Census Bureau's Advance Retail Sales Report for February was released Monday morning. Headline sales came in at -0.2% month-over-month to one decimal and were worse than the Investing.com forecast of 0.3%.Core sales (ex Autos) came in at -0.42% MoM (to two decimals).
Here is the introduction from today's report:
Advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for February 2019, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes, were $506.0 billion, a decrease of 0.2 percent (±0.5 percent)* from the previous month, but 2.2