{"id":433234,"date":"2026-07-06T16:41:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T09:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/eurozone-retail-sales-see-a-modest-bounce-back-in-may-433234\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T16:41:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T09:41:13","slug":"eurozone-retail-sales-see-a-modest-bounce-back-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/eurozone-retail-sales-see-a-modest-bounce-back-in-may-433234\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurozone retail sales see a modest bounce back in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Retail sales +0.2% vs +0.3% m\/m expected<\/li>\n<li>Prior -0.4%; revised to -0.3%<\/li>\n<li>Retail sales +1.6% vs +1.6% y\/y expected<\/li>\n<li>Prior +1.0%; revised to +0.9%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Euro area retail sales bounced back in May after a more sluggish showing in April before this. The rebound was more broad-based with an increase in the volume of retail trade for food, drinks, tobacco (+0.6%) and also for non-food products (+0.1%). Meanwhile, there was a drop in the the volume of retail trade for automotive fuel in specialised stores (-0.5%).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">The annual estimate continues to show that retail sales activity is holding up so far this year with an increase of 1.6%. While there might be concerns on higher inflation hitting at consumption, it&#8217;s not quite as bad just yet. That being said, we will have to see how the trend develops over the next few months and past the summer especially.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Justin Low at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retail sales +0.2% vs +0.3% m\/m expected Prior -0.4%; revised to -0.3% Retail sales +1.6% vs +1.6% y\/y expected Prior +1.0%; revised to +0.9% Euro area retail sales bounced back in May&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-433234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433234","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=433234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}