Retail trade sales show marginal increase
Retail trade sales at constant prices for January 2008 showed a marginal increase of 0.2% compared with January 2007, after two consecutive decreases at the end of 2007.
US retail sales rose a seasonally adjusted 0.4% to $366.4 billion in April, the seventh straight increase and the 12th gain in the past 13 months, led by strong sales at hardware stores and garden centers, the US Census Bureau, part of the Department of Commerce, estimated.