{"id":441712,"date":"2026-11-06T18:40:06","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T11:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/eurozone-retail-sales-fall-0-7-in-september-signalling-weakening-consumer-demand-441712\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T18:40:06","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T11:40:06","slug":"eurozone-retail-sales-fall-0-7-in-september-signalling-weakening-consumer-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/eurozone-retail-sales-fall-0-7-in-september-signalling-weakening-consumer-demand-441712\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurozone retail sales fall 0.7% in September, signalling weakening consumer demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Retail sales m\/m -0.7% vs -0.1% expected<\/li>\n<li>Prior +0.1%<\/li>\n<li>Retail sales y\/y +0.4% vs +0.6% expected<\/li>\n<li>Prior +0.8%<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/en\/web\/products-euro-indicators\/w\/4-06112026-ap\" rel=\"follow\">Full report<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Eurozone retail sales declined more than expected in September, falling 0.7% m\/m. Germany recorded the largest monthly decline, with retail sales falling 2.0%. The EU-wide figure also weakened, dropping 0.6% m\/m. The decline was primarily driven by non-food products, where sales volumes dropped 1.2% in the euro area and 1.0% across the EU. Food, drinks and tobacco sales also weakened, falling 0.3% and 0.4%, respectively. Automotive fuel was the only category to record an increase, rising 1.0% in the euro area and 0.1% in the EU.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>On an annual basis, however, retail trade volumes remained positive, increasing by 0.4% y\/y in the euro area and 0.9% in the EU, although the data still missed expectations. Within the euro area, food, drinks and tobacco recorded the strongest annual growth at 1.1%, followed by non-food products at 0.7%. Automotive fuel sales remained under pressure, declining 3.0% y\/y.<\/p>\n<p>The September figures point to weakening consumer demand amid higher interest rates and elevated energy prices. The Retail Sales report is almost never a market-moving release and the data doesn&#8217;t change anything for the ECB as the central bank remains focused on inflation.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Giuseppe Dellamotta at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retail sales m\/m -0.7% vs -0.1% expected Prior +0.1% Retail sales y\/y +0.4% vs +0.6% expected Prior +0.8% Full report Eurozone retail sales declined more than expected in September, falling 0.7% m\/m.&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-441712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441712","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=441712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}