4 days ago · WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. retail sales dropped sharply last month, in part because cold weather kept more Americans indoors, denting sales at car dealers and most other stores. Retail sales fell 0.9% in January from the previous month, the Commerce Department said, after two months of healthy gains. It was a much bigger drop than economists ...

4 days ago · Retail sales plunged 0.9% in January from the prior month, the Commerce Department said Friday. That’s down sharply from December’s upwardly revised 0.7% gain and well below economists ...

4 days ago · Retail and food sales made their largest monthly drop in January since March 2023, marking an end to the buying surge that took off in the run-up to the 2024 election. Sales fell by 0.9 percent to ...

4 days ago · Retail sales slipped 0.9% for the month from an upwardly revised 0.7% gain in December, even worse than the Dow Jones estimate for a 0.2% decline. The sales totals are adjusted for seasonality but ...

4 days ago · U.S. retail sales dropped by the most in nearly two years in January, likely weighed down by frigid temperatures, wildfires and motor vehicle shortages, suggesting a sharp slowdown in economic...

5 days ago · Retail and food services sales fell 0.9% in January, significantly weaker than expected, after four consecutive monthly gains. A drop in light vehicle sales in January accounted for roughly two-thirds of the decline. However, even excluding vehicle sales, retail sales and food services sales declines were broadly based, with retail sales ...

5 days ago · The results come after core retail sales grew 4% year over year during the 2024 holiday season and 3.6% for the full year. Earlier this week, the CNBC/NRF Retail Monitor, powered by Affinity Solutions, reported that core retail sales were down 1.27% seasonally adjusted month over month in January but up 5.72% unadjusted year over year. That ...

4 days ago · Retail sales dropped 0.9% in January from the previous month, the Commerce Department said, after two months of healthy gains. It was a much bigger drop than economists expected and the biggest ...

Feb 10, 2025 · Total retail sales, excluding automobiles and gasoline, were down 1.07% seasonally adjusted month over month but up 5.44% unadjusted year over year in January, according to the Retail Monitor. That compared with increases of 1.74% month over month and 7.24% year over year in December.

Feb 15, 2024 · Retail sales, which captures spending on all goods and food services, fell 0.8% in January, the Commerce Department reported Thursday, breaking a two-month streak of increases.