{"id":116704,"date":"2025-07-17T16:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T12:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/?p=116704"},"modified":"2025-07-17T16:40:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T12:40:11","slug":"u-s-retail-sales-show-strong-growth-in-june-exceeding-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/u-s-retail-sales-show-strong-growth-in-june-exceeding-expectations\/07\/17\/market-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Retail Sales Show Strong Growth in June, Exceeding Expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>U.S. <strong>Retail Sales<\/strong> rose by <strong>0.6%<\/strong> on a monthly basis in June, reaching a total of <strong>$720.1 billion<\/strong>, according to the U.S. Census Bureau&#8217;s report released on Thursday. This increase came after a <strong>0.9% decrease<\/strong> in May and surpassed market expectations, which had forecast a more modest <strong>0.1%<\/strong> rise. On a yearly basis, retail sales grew <strong>3.9%<\/strong> in June, an improvement from <strong>3.3%<\/strong> in May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report also highlighted that <strong>total sales<\/strong> for the period from <strong>April 2025 to June 2025<\/strong> were up <strong>4.1%<\/strong> compared to the same period last year, indicating a positive trend in consumer spending despite earlier setbacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This stronger-than-expected growth in June signals robust consumer demand, contributing to a more optimistic outlook for the U.S. economy in the second quarter of 2025. The increase in retail sales reflects solid consumption, which remains a key driver of economic activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Retail Sales rose by 0.6% on a monthly basis in June, reaching a total of $720.1 billion, according to the U.S. Census Bureau&#8217;s report released on Thursday. This increase came after a 0.9% decrease in May and surpassed market expectations, which had forecast a more modest 0.1% rise. On a yearly basis, retail sales &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":102517,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[7049,6994,6835],"class_list":["post-116704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-market-updates","tag-retail","tag-sales","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116705,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116704\/revisions\/116705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}