US retail sales drop 0.9% in Jan. 2025

US retail sales drop 0.9% in January 2025
Overall retail sales in January 2025 decreased by 0.9% on a seasonally adjusted basis from the previous month but saw a 4.2% rise on an unadjusted basis compared to 2024, as reported by the US Census Bureau.
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January retail sales slipped almost 1%, but views differ on what it means
On Friday, the Census Bureau gave us retail sales data for January, which fell 0.9% from December. That’s a much bigger drop than economists were expecting. Now, we usually see a drop in retail sales at the start of the year as people and their bank accounts try to recover from their holiday spending sprees.
January Retail Sales
The advance report for retail sales plummeted by 0.9 percent for January, offset only modestly by upward revisions to prior months. Read more here.
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