{"id":429844,"date":"2026-04-24T19:40:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/04\/canada-february-retail-sales-0-7-vs-0-9-expected\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T19:40:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:40:05","slug":"canada-february-retail-sales-0-7-vs-0-9-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/04\/canada-february-retail-sales-0-7-vs-0-9-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada February retail sales +0.7% vs +0.9% expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Prior was +1.1% (revised to +1.2%)<\/li>\n<li>Ex autos +0.5% vs +0.8% expected<\/li>\n<li>Prior ex autos was +0.8% (revised to +1.0%)<\/li>\n<li>March advance reading +0.6%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The headline number is soft but the revisions were higher and the advance reading for March was strong. That said, surely a big portion of the +0.6% reading in March was gasoline so we&#8217;re going to have to wait for the ex-gas number in next month&#8217;s report. All told, the Canadian consumer appeared to be in good shape ahead of the Iran war.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Adam Button at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior was +1.1% (revised to +1.2%) Ex autos +0.5% vs +0.8% expected Prior ex autos was +0.8% (revised to +1.0%) March advance reading +0.6% The headline number is soft but the revisions were higher and the advance reading for March was strong. That said, surely a big portion of the +0.6% reading in March was [&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-429844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429844","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=429844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}