{"id":430961,"date":"2026-05-26T17:40:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T10:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/05\/uk-cbi-shows-retailers-sentiment-fell-at-a-slower-pace-compared-to-previous-two-quarters\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T17:40:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T10:40:19","slug":"uk-cbi-shows-retailers-sentiment-fell-at-a-slower-pace-compared-to-previous-two-quarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/05\/uk-cbi-shows-retailers-sentiment-fell-at-a-slower-pace-compared-to-previous-two-quarters\/","title":{"rendered":"UK CBI shows retailers sentiment fell at a slower pace compared to previous two quarters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>UK CBI Distributive Trades -46 vs -50 expected<\/li>\n<li>Prior -68<\/li>\n<li>Full report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbi.org.uk\/media-centre\/articles\/retail-price-growth-cools-in-may-amid-weak-demand-cbi-distributive-trades\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The agency noted: &#8220;retail selling prices grew in the year to May at the slowest rate in over a year and are set to grow at a similar pace in June. Sales volumes in the retail sector fell short of seasonal norms in May, while annual sales volumes continued to fall but at a slightly slower pace. Next month, sales are expected to remain \u201cpoor\u201d for the time of year, with the sales decline in annual volumes set to ease slightly further.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">They added that &#8220;weak demand continues to weigh on retailers\u2019 sentiment, which has remained negative since mid-2024, as firms anticipate that their business situation will deteriorate over the coming quarter. Against this backdrop, retailers expect to pare back both investment and hiring plans, extending a period of weakness that dates back to 2022.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Giuseppe Dellamotta at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK CBI Distributive Trades -46 vs -50 expected Prior -68 Full report here The agency noted: &#8220;retail selling prices grew in the year to May at the slowest rate in over a year and are set to grow at a similar pace in June. Sales volumes in the retail sector fell short of seasonal norms [&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-430961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430961","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=430961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}