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Census Bureau: Retail sales held steady in December

1/13/2012

The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for December, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes, were $400.6 billion.


The December figure is up 0.1% from November, and up 6.5% from December 2010.


Total sales for the October through December 2011 period were up 7.0% from the same period a year ago.


In business classification NAICS 444 -- building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers -- adjusted sales in December were $25.879 billion, up 1.7% from the previous month, and up 1.6% from the same month last year.


The Census Bureau's report can be found here.

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