{"id":413,"date":"2011-07-05T12:02:28","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T12:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-finance-zone.co.uk\/?p=413"},"modified":"2011-07-05T12:02:28","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T12:02:28","slug":"euro-zone-retail-sales-fall-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/2011\/07\/05\/euro-zone-retail-sales-fall-in-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Euro zone retail sales fall in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Retail sales in the 17-member euro zone fell in May as consumers cut back on spending in the face of higher inflation and rising unemployment.<\/p>\n<p>According to the European Union\u2019s statistics, Eurostat, sales in the euro zone fell 1.1% in May on a monthly basis \u2013 the biggest fall since April 2010 \u2013 with the non-food sector, such as electrical goods and clothing, noticing weak demand.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts had expected a decline of 1%.<\/p>\n<p>On an annual basis, meanwhile, sales were 1.9% lower \u2013 way below the 0.5% yearly fall which was expected.<\/p>\n<p>In Germany, which is the euro zone\u2019s largest economy, sales fell almost 3%, while France showed a fall of 0.7%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retail sales in the 17-member euro zone fell in May as consumers cut back on spending in the face of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}