Retail sales up before Christmas
Retail sales up before Christmas
Sales at U.S. retailers rose 4.5 percent last week from a year earlier, Bloomberg reported. Sales for the week ending Dec. 24 increased 0.9 percent from the previous week, according to a chain-store sales index released by the New York-based International Council of Shopping Centers and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. That compared with a 3.4 percent gain a week earlier.
Sales at U.S. retailers rose 4.5 percent last week from a year earlier, Bloomberg reported.
Sales for the week ending Dec. 24 increased 0.9 percent from the previous week, according to a chain-store sales index released by the New York-based International Council of Shopping Centers and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. That compared with a 3.4 percent gain a week earlier.