{"id":430847,"date":"2026-05-22T19:40:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T12:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/05\/canada-retail-sales-for-march-0-9-vs-0-6-estimate\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T19:40:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T12:40:06","slug":"canada-retail-sales-for-march-0-9-vs-0-6-estimate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/05\/canada-retail-sales-for-march-0-9-vs-0-6-estimate\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada retail sales for March 0.9% vs 0.6% estimate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Prior month 0.7%<\/li>\n<li>Retail sales 0.9% vs 0.6% estimate<\/li>\n<li>Retail sales ex autos 1.4% vs 0.9% estimate<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other details:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-section-id=\"jjsnrm\" data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"61\">Retail sales rose 0.9% in March to $72.7 billion.\n<\/li>\n<li data-section-id=\"12vgnak\" data-start=\"62\" data-end=\"154\">Four of nine subsectors posted gains, led by gasoline stations and fuel vendors.\n<\/li>\n<li data-section-id=\"1hzdbtb\" data-start=\"155\" data-end=\"279\">Core retail sales (excluding gasoline stations\/fuel vendors and motor vehicle\/parts dealers) fell 0.1% in March.\n<\/li>\n<li data-section-id=\"picg71\" data-start=\"280\" data-end=\"391\">Retail sales volumes declined 0.7% in March, indicating lower real spending after adjusting for prices.\n<\/li>\n<li data-section-id=\"et6vkv\" data-start=\"392\" data-end=\"499\">First-quarter 2026 retail sales increased 2.1%, marking the seventh consecutive quarterly gain.\n<\/li>\n<li data-section-id=\"hw950w\" data-start=\"500\" data-end=\"548\" data-is-last-node=\"\">Retail sales volumes rose 1.2% in Q1 2026.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The problem is in the ex Gas. The number was not so hot if you take out the gains from gas (higher prices).  The retail sales volume declined by -0.7% .  That makes the report not as good as it appears. The largest increase in retail sales in March was observed at gasoline stations and fuel vendors (+12.4%).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Advanced retail sales for April +0.6%*<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>*This unofficial estimate was calculated based on responses received from 52.1% of companies surveyed. The average final response rate for the survey over the previous 12 months was 88.3%.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Greg Michalowski at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior month 0.7% Retail sales 0.9% vs 0.6% estimate Retail sales ex autos 1.4% vs 0.9% estimate Other details: Retail sales rose 0.9% in March to $72.7 billion. Four of nine subsectors posted gains, led by gasoline stations and fuel vendors. Core retail sales (excluding gasoline stations\/fuel vendors and motor vehicle\/parts dealers) fell 0.1% in [&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-430847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430847","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=430847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}