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Yesterday it was reported that Euro zone retail sales for April were up 0.2% from March, missing expectations for a 0.9% rise following March's 0.5% gain.
Check Credit Rating (AXcess News) Houston, TX - The markets opened down this morning on disappointing news from the retail sector after March sales figures were lower than expected. It was the second month in a row that retail sales were below estimates.
The figure was higher than increase in February and broadly in line with the previous six month average, the BoE said. However, month growth rate weakened to 10.2%, from 10.3% in February. The increase in consumer credit of .3 billion was much lower than in February and credit card lending increased by .2 billion in March compared with .5 billion in February. Other loans and advances rose by .1 billion (down from .8 billion in February). The annual growth rate of consumer credit continued to fall, to 7.5% in March.
Improve Credit Rating U.S. chain store sales were flat last week compared to the previous week, according to International Council of Shopping Center's (ICSC)index. The year-over-year pace of growth slowed to 2.4 percent for the week.
Overall Household Spending, Retail Sales, Small Business Confidence, and the Jobless Rate. Japan's jobless rate fell from 4% to 3.8% year low, and household spending increased by 1.1% for a fourth month in a row in April. Retail Sales data fell for a second month in April, making it more difficult for the Bank of Japan to raise interest rates from 0.5%, the lowest among industrialized nations.
Credit Online Rating Report "This past week, sales once again reflected the Easter-shift and the shifting weather patterns across the country," said Michael P. Niemira, ICSC's chief economist and director of research.
Taken together the retail web sites ranked in the Top 500 Guide accounted for 63% of all online retail sales in the U.S.
Credit Score Rating Scale Because of the calendar shift, retailers and analysts look at March and April results combined to assess sales trends.
00GMT Euro Zone Retail Sales data which is expected to rise 1.1% MoM and 2.3% YoY. An hour later, German Factory Orders are expected to rise 0.5% MoM, less than the 1.5% increase the previous month. At the same hour in the UK, British Retail Consortium Retail Sales are expected to increase by 2.0%. Stronger readings might provide a reason for a light rebound in both EUR and GBP values, as they would allow the Central Banks to continue with their monetary tightening cycle with a lesser risk of strangling economic growth.
Bad Card Credit Credit People For March as a whole Niemira says he expects same-store sales to rise between 2.5 percent and 3 percent, on a year-over-year basis.
Free Credit Rating Report Thursday, retailers reported their March sales figures with Wal-Mart Stores (NYSE: WMT) showing lower than expected sales results. Other retailers who reported lower sales for March were Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (NYSE: ANF), Gap, Inc. (NYSE: GPS) and J.C. Penney Co. (NYSE: JCP). While their retail sales figures were below expectations, Abercrombie and Penney's shares rose in early afternoon trading in New York.
Credit Rating Scale Costco Wholesale Corp. (Nasdaq: COST)and Nordstrom Inc. (NYSE: JWN) both outperformed analysts expectations in March. Costco's same-store sales rose 7 percent, beatinganalysts 5.9 percent estimate. Nordstromreported a 4.3 percent gain in same-store sales, better than the 3.4 percent forecast.
Bad Credit Rating Wal-Martreported a 1.4 percent gain in same-store sales, in line with the 1.2 percent estimate from analysts.
Credit Rating Agency J.C. Penney reported a 1.0 percent drop in same-store sales. Analysts had expected a 2 percent gain. The company said same-sales missed the company's initial guidance of growth in the low single digits, due to a later, mid-April Easter holiday this year.
Credit Rating Canada Shares of J.C. Penney's rose after Standard & Poor's raised its rating from junk status. S&P raised Penney's credit rating to investment grade, citing the company's turnaround in the competitive department store sector.
Bad Credit Mortgage Rating "Penney has made substantial progress in improving sales, margins, and market share, and this has brought the department store and catalog/Internet operations to a satisfactory business profile," S&P said in a statement.
Good Credit Rating Youth apparel retailer Abercrombie & Fitch said its March same-store sales were flat compared with last year. Analysts expected a 3.6 percent increase.
Credit Score Rating Chart Gap Inc. saw sales at stores open longer than a year plunge 13%. That was far deeper than the company's own expectation and the 7.9% average decline estimated by analysts.
Credit Mortgage Rating Poor Total sales dropped 9% to $1.35 billion.
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