Retail sales climb in April
This morning, the Census Bureau reported that retail sales climbed in April, good news for business and more evidence of a present, if slow-growing, self-sustaining recovery.
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.