{"id":430003,"date":"2026-04-30T14:00:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T07:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/04\/germany-march-retail-sales-2-0-vs-0-1-m-m-expected\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T14:00:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T07:00:33","slug":"germany-march-retail-sales-2-0-vs-0-1-m-m-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/04\/germany-march-retail-sales-2-0-vs-0-1-m-m-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany March retail sales -2.0% vs -0.1% m\/m expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Prior -0.1%; revised to -0.3%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Death, taxes, and German retail sales disappointing estimates. It&#8217;s almost the case every time, innit? This is a very, very poor reading with the annual estimate also now falling into negative territory (-2.0%) in real terms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">This reflects the pessimism tied to the situation in the Middle East, with surging energy prices weighing on consumer activity. Food sales were seen down 2.7% on the month while non-food retail trade also declined by 1.0% on the month. As higher prices come into the picture across multiple fronts, households will have to think twice about making certain purchases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">And the continued negativity is persisting as we get into next month still. From earlier this week: <a href=\"https:\/\/investinglive.com\/news\/germany-may-gfk-consumer-sentiment-333-vs-293-expected-20260427\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow\">Germany May GfK consumer sentiment -33.3 vs -29.3 expected<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">The longer the war drags on, expect that to exert a bigger toll on the German economy. And that doesn&#8217;t bode well for the ECB as there will be concerns about stagflation soon enough.<\/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 -0.3% Death, taxes, and German retail sales disappointing estimates. It&#8217;s almost the case every time, innit? This is a very, very poor reading with the annual estimate also now falling into negative territory (-2.0%) in real terms. This reflects the pessimism tied to the situation in the Middle East, with surging [&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-430003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430003","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=430003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}