(bestätigt # 500)
Im März sackten die Umsätze um -0,2 %. Erwartet war ein Plus von 0,1 %.#
Auch für Februar wurden die Zahlen nachträglich deutlich nach unten revidiert: auf -0,3 % statt der ursprünglich vermeldeten +0,1 %.
www.marketwatch.com/story/...two-month-stretch-in-two-year-2017-04-14
Sales at U.S. retailers fell in March for the second month in a row, marking the worst two-month stretch in two years and adding to evidence that first-quarter U.S. growth will be on the soft side.
Sales at retailers nationwide declined 0.2% last month, mostly because of cheaper gas and incentives by car dealers to drum up sales...
What made the decline seem even worse, though, was a government update to sales figures for February that showed a 0.3% drop instead of a 0.1% increase as originally reported.
It’s the weakest two-month stretch of sales since the beginning of 2015, another sign that the government’s official scorecard for first-quarter growth will fall short of 2%. Economists polled by MarketWatch predict a 1.6% increase in gross domestic product in the first three months of the year....
(Verkleinert auf 83%)

