{"id":427753,"date":"2026-03-02T14:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T07:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/03\/germany-january-retail-sales-0-9-vs-0-2-m-m-expected\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T14:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T07:25:10","slug":"germany-january-retail-sales-0-9-vs-0-2-m-m-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/germany-january-retail-sales-0-9-vs-0-2-m-m-expected-427753\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany January retail sales -0.9% vs -0.2% m\/m expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Prior +0.1%; revised to +1.2%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">The drop here needs to be put into context a little more, as it comes after a major bump up in the December 2025 retail sales jump. That figure was seen revised from +0.1% to +1.2% on the month. So, the miss on estimates in the headline isn&#8217;t as bad as what it might imply at first glance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Looking at the details, the decline in January 2026 stems mostly from a fall in the non-food retail sector. Sales there fell by 1.7% on the month while food store sales were unchanged in real terms for the first month of the year.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Justin Low at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior +0.1%; revised to +1.2% The drop here needs to be put into context a little more, as it comes after a major bump up in the December 2025 retail sales jump.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}