{"id":429087,"date":"2026-03-31T13:40:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T06:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/03\/germany-february-retail-sales-0-6-vs-0-2-m-m-expected\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T13:40:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T06:40:05","slug":"germany-february-retail-sales-0-6-vs-0-2-m-m-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/germany-february-retail-sales-0-6-vs-0-2-m-m-expected-429087\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany February retail sales -0.6% vs +0.2% m\/m expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Prior -0.9%; revised to -1.1%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">And once again, German retail sales underwhelms on expectations and this time it is being made to look worse than previous times. For one, it comes alongside a negative revision to the January figure. But more importantly, it paints a negative backdrop in the month before we even see the US-Iran conflict impact hit on prices, inflation, and the economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Food store sales declined by 1.4% on the month while non-food store retailing saw a 0.7% increase in sales. The latter at least helps to offset slightly the negative drag on the overall report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">This kind of backdrop is not quite what you&#8217;d like to see as price pressures have already been keeping more stubborn in Europe&#8217;s largest economy. Now when you have to factor in the impact of higher energy prices, that will bite at consumption activity even more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">As such, that will make for a tough outlook for the German economy in the months ahead. That especially as the manufacturing sector recovery is also at risk of being derailed amid a surge in input cost inflation, which will then weigh on demand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Stagflation risks might well creep back into the picture and that will be another key risk factor that the ECB has to be careful of.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Justin Low at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior -0.9%; revised to -1.1% And once again, German retail sales underwhelms on expectations and this time it is being made to look worse than previous times. For one, it comes alongside&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-429087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429087","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=429087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}