{"id":103887,"date":"2025-03-17T22:02:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T19:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/business\/?p=103887"},"modified":"2025-03-17T22:02:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T19:02:43","slug":"u-s-retail-sales-weaker-than-expected-in-feb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/business\/2025\/03\/u-s-retail-sales-weaker-than-expected-in-feb\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. retail sales weaker than expected in Feb"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"conTop\">\n<div class=\"infoBox clearfix\">\n<div class=\"info\">\n<p class=\"time\"><strong>WASHINGTON, March 17 (Xinhua) &#8212; U.S. retail sales edged up by 0.2 percent in February, weaker than expected, following a revised 1.2 percent decline in January, the U.S. Commerce Department reported on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"conLeft\">\n<div id=\"detail\" class=\"content\">\n<div id=\"detailContent\">\n<p>Advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for February 2025, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes, were 722.7 billion dollars, up 0.2 percent from the previous month, and up 3.1 percent from February 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The December 2024 to January 2025 percent change was revised from down 0.9 percent to down 1.2 percent. 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