Advance U.S. Retail Sales Rose 0.6% in August, Flat with Expectations (XRT)

(Updated - September 12, 2014 8:40 AM EDT)

August MoM Retail Sales Advance 0.6% vs 0.6% Expected; Ex-Auto 0.3% vs 0.3%

UPDATE - More from the U.S. Census:

The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for August, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes, were $444.4 billion, an increase of 0.6 percent (±0.5%) from the previous month, and 5.0 percent (±0.9%) above August 2013. Total sales for the June through August 2014 period were up 4.5 percent (±0.7%) from the same period a year ago. The June to July 2014 percent change was revised from virtually unchanged (±0.5%)* to 0.3 percent (±0.2%).

Retail trade sales were up 0.6 percent (±0.5%) from July 2014, and 4.8 percent (±0.7%) above last year. Auto and other motor vehicle dealers were up 9.5 percent (±3.0%) from August 2013 and health and personal care stores were up 8.1 percent (±1.9%) from last year.

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