Retail Sales Fall 0.3 Percent in August
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WASHINGTON - Retail sales slid in August as people steered away from buying cars and shoppers kept a close eye on their spending after splurging in July.    The Commerce Department reported retail sales fell by 0.3 percent in August, following a 0.8 percent gain the previous month...
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Resales of U.S. homes fell 2.7  percent in August, decreasing more than expected as mortgage  interest rates picked up in the early summer, a trade  association report showed on Friday.
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Britain&#39;s inflation rate fell in August further below its 2.0 percent government-set upper limit target with clothing and footwear prices actually falling, official data showed on Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON -- Retail sales in August posted the weakest showing in two months as worried consumers curbed their spending habits.
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Retail sales dipped in August and the U.S. gap with its international trade partners widened to a record level in the second quarter of the year, two reports showed today.
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Higher interest rates and a damp, cool summer take their toll on UK retail sales in August, says the CBI's latest trades survey.
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The pace of existing home sales fell  for a fifth straight month in August, hitting a 6.3 million  unit annual rate, according to a report from the National  Association of Realtors on Monday that was not as bleak as  economists had expected.
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The August start of the back-to-school shopping season was a disappointment for major retailers, giving the industry a third straight month of tepid sales. Higher gasoline prices and consumers' ongoing worries about jobs contributed to the poor showing.
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Wholesale prices dipped 0.1 percent in August as a retreat in food costs helped to blunt a rise in the price of some energy products, a fresh sign that inflation isn't currently a problem for the economy.
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Jitters over a slowing US economy intensified yesterday with the release of weaker-than-expected retail sales figures for August, further raising expectations that the Federal Reserve board will cut interest rates next week for the first time in four years.
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UK retail sales rose by 0.3% in August, official figures show, taking the annual rate of growth to 4.3%.
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WASHINGTON - Shoppers turned a bit tightfisted in August, dropping sales at the nation's retailers by 0.3 percent, providing fresh evidence of an erratic pace of consumer spending in recent months.    The decline in sales reported by the Commerce Department on Tuesday came after shoppers pushed sales up by a solid 0.8 percent in July as consumers' willingness to spend revived after a June lull...
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U.S. retail sales dipped in August  and the U.S. gap with its international trade partners widened  to a record level in the second quarter of the year, government  reports released on Tuesday showed.
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US retail sales rose a weaker-than-expected 0.3 percent in August, data showed Friday, suggest American consumers are turning more cautious.
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Sales of new single-family U.S. homes fell 8.3 percent in August to a 795,000 annual sales pace, its slowest rate in over seven years, while the inventory of homes dropped, a Commerce Department report showed on Thursday.
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Retail sales unexpectedly rose in August, gaining 0.6 percent after a 0.7 percent gain in July, the Office for National Statistics said.
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Retail sales and industrial output eked out smaller-than-expected gains in August, according to data on Friday that kept in place expectations the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates next week.