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Free AccessUS Data: Retail Sales - Select Calculations>
Data through: January 2019
Source: U.S. Commerce Department
Levels in millions of U.S. dollars, seasonally adjusted
Calculations by MNI
1Q-19 4Q-18 qtr/qtr Annualized Annualized
Avg. Avg. % chg % chg % chg(1)
Retail Sales 504440.0 508863.7 -0.9 -3.4 -5.1
Ex. Mtr Veh 402835.0 405016.3 -0.5 -2.1 -3.2
Ex. Mtr Veh, Gas 362624.0 361692.3 0.3 1.0 1.6
Ex. Gas 464229.0 465539.7 -0.3 -1.1 -1.7
Mtr Veh 101605.0 103847.3 -2.2 -8.4 -12.3
Gas Stations 40211.0 43324.0 -7.2 -25.8 -36.1
Bldg Materials 34334.0 33201.7 3.4 14.4 22.3
Ex. Auto,Bldg Mat 376133.0 379506.0 -0.9 -3.5 -5.2
Ex. Auto,Bldg Mat,Gas 335922.0 336182.0 -0.1 -0.3 -0.5
Ex. Food, Autos, Bldg, Gas 275120.0 275732.7 -0.2 -0.9 -1.3
Footnotes:
(1) Assumes annualization is 12 divided by the number of months between
the center of the mass of data. This results in an exponent of 6.0 for
one month of data in the qtr and an exponent of 4.8 when two months of a
quarter's data are available.
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