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Advance Monthly Sales for Retail and Food Services
Advance Monthly Sales for Retail and Food Serviceshttp://www.census.gov/retail/marts/www/marts_current.pdf
The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for December, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes, were $431.9 billion, an increase of 0.2 percent (±0.5%)* from the previous month, and 4.1 percent (±0.7%) above December 2012. Total sales for the 12 months of 2013 were up 4.2 percent (±1.7%) from 2012. Total sales for the October through December 2013 period were up 1.0 percent (±0.5%) from the same period a year ago. The October to November 2013 percent change was revised from +0.7 percent (±0.5%) to +0.4 percent (±0.2%).
Retail trade sales were up 0.2 percent (±0.5%)* from November 2013, and 4.0 percent (±0.7%) above last year. Nonstore retailers were up 9.9 percent (±2.1%) from December of 2012 and auto and other motor vehicle dealers were up 6.2 percent (±2.1%) from last year.