{"id":127164,"date":"2026-05-14T17:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/?p=127164"},"modified":"2026-05-14T17:58:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:58:24","slug":"u-s-retail-sales-hold-their-ground-in-april-consumer-resilience-defies-iran-war-inflation-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/u-s-retail-sales-hold-their-ground-in-april-consumer-resilience-defies-iran-war-inflation-storm\/05\/14\/market-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Retail Sales Hold Their Ground in April: Consumer Resilience Defies Iran War Inflation Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Key Takeaways<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Modest monthly gain:<\/strong> U.S. retail sales rose 0.5% in April to $757.1 billion, matching market expectations.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>March revised down:<\/strong> The prior month&#8217;s reading was revised to 1.6% from the initial 1.7%.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Strong annual growth:<\/strong> Retail sales were up 4.9% year-on-year in April.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Three-month trend:<\/strong> Total sales for February through April 2026 were up 4.4% from the same period a year ago.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Consumer resilience:<\/strong> The steady gains suggest U.S. consumers continue to spend despite Iran war energy shocks and elevated inflation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Retail Sales in the United States rose by 0.5% on a monthly basis in April to $757.1 billion, the U.S. Census Bureau reported on Thursday. This reading followed the 1.6% increase (revised down from 1.7%) recorded in March and came in line with market expectations. On a yearly basis, retail sales were up 4.9% over this period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Total sales for the February 2026 through April 2026 period were up 4.4 percent (\u00b10.4 percent) from the same period a year ago,&#8221; the press release noted. &#8220;The February 2026 to March 2026 percent change was revised from up 1.7 percent (\u00b10.4 percent) to up 1.6 percent (\u00b10.2 percent).&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Takeaways Modest monthly gain: U.S. retail sales rose 0.5% in April to $757.1 billion, matching market expectations. March revised down: The prior month&#8217;s reading was revised to 1.6% from the initial 1.7%. Strong annual growth: Retail sales were up 4.9% year-on-year in April. Three-month trend: Total sales for February through April 2026 were up &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":126095,"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":[6827,49,37,39,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-daily-economic-reports","category-economic-reports","category-forex-markets","category-global-stock-markets","category-market-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127164","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=127164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127165,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127164\/revisions\/127165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}