Euro Area Retail Sales MoM 1995-2018 | Data | Chart | Calendar | Forecast

Retail trade in the Euro Area dropped 0.2 percent from a month earlier in August 2018, following an upwardly revised 0.6 percent decline in July and missing market expectations of 0.2 percent gain. It was the second consecutive month of decreases in retail trade due to lower sales of food, drinks, tobacco (-0.3 percent vs -1 percent in July) and automotive fuel (-0.6 percent vs -1.5 percent). Meanwhile, non-food trade was unchanged in August, as a fall in mail orders and internet sales (-2.3 percent vs 0.9 percent) was offset by increases in sales of pharmaceutical and medical goods (0.7 percent vs 0.2 percent), electrical goods and furniture (0.6 percent vs -1.6 percent), textiles, clothing, footwear (0.4 percent vs 0.9 percent), and computer equipment, books and other (0.2 percent vs -0.7 percent). Retail Sales MoM in the Euro Area averaged 0.09 percent from 1995 until 2018, reaching an all time high of 2.80 percent in October of 1999 and a record low of -2 percent in May of 2011.

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Calendar	GMT		Actual	Previous	Consensus	TEForecast
2018-08-03	09:00 AM	Retail Sales MoM	0.3%	0.3%	0.4%	0.4%
2018-09-05	09:00 AM	Retail Sales MoM	-0.2%	0.3%	-0.2%	-0.3%
2018-10-03	09:00 AM	Retail Sales MoM	-0.2%	-0.6%	0.2%	-0.1%
2018-11-07	10:00 AM	Retail Sales MoM		-0.2%		0.9%
2018-12-05	10:00 AM	Retail Sales MoM				-0.6%

Euro Area Consumer	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Consumer Confidence	-2.90	-1.90	2.00	-34.70	Index Points	[+]
Retail Sales MoM	-0.20	-0.60	2.80	-2.00	percent	[+]
Retail Sales YoY	1.80	1.00	6.00	-4.60	percent	[+]
Consumer Spending	1418.51	1415.93	1418.51	1044.96	EUR Billion	[+]
Disposable Personal Income	1742505.00	1733153.00	1742505.00	1074880.00	EUR Million	[+]
Personal Savings	12.08	11.95	14.32	11.76	percent	[+]
Private Sector Credit	13347318.60	13358252.10	13358252.10	4998832.00	EUR Million	[+]
Bank Lending Rate	2.02	2.00	6.52	2.00	percent	[+]
Consumer Credit	677864.67	676828.23	677864.67	359891.93	EUR Million	[+]
Economic Optimism Index	110.90	111.60	118.30	68.50		[+]
Households Debt To Gdp	57.80	58.10	64.10	46.30	percent of GDP	[+]
Households Debt To Income	94.00	94.23	98.13	71.02	percent	[+]
Consumer Confidence Current Conditions	-5.30	-9.20	-2.80	-65.40		[+]
Consumer Confidence Economic Expectations	-0.50	-4.10	4.20	-43.70		[+]
Consumer Confidence Financial Expectations	-0.70	-0.90	4.90	-13.40		[+]
Consumer Confidence Major Purchases Expectations	-17.30	-18.10	-12.00	-28.20		[+]
Consumer Confidence Price Trends	20.10	18.20	50.60	-16.30	Index Points	[+]
Consumer Confidence Savings Expectations	-3.50	-5.20	1.30	-17.50		[+]
Consumer Confidence Unemployment Expectations	0.60	3.00	68.80	-1.70		[+]

Euro Area Retail Sales MoM

In the Euro Area, retail sales show the evolution of the total amount of goods sold. Among them, food drinks and tobacco account for the highest share (39.3 percent); followed by electrical goods and furniture (12.0 percent share); computer equipment books and other (11.4 percent share); pharmaceutical and medical goods (9.9 percent share); textiles, clothing, footwear (9.2 percent share); auto fuel (9.1 percent share); other non-food products (6.0 percent share) and mail orders and internet (2.9 percent share). Among countries, Germany has the highest weight (25.9 percent), followed by France (21.7 percent), Italy (16.1 percent) and Spain (11.4 percent). Others are Netherlands (5.2 percent); Belgium (4.3 percent); Greece (3.0 percent); Austria (2.8 percent); Portugal (2.4 percent); Finland (1.8 percent); Ireland (1.7 percent); Luxembourg and Slovakia (0.8 percent each); Slovenia (0.6 percent); Lithuania (0.4 percent); Latvia and Cyprus (0.3 percent); Estonia (0.2 percent) and Malta (0.1 percent). This page provides the latest reported value for - Euro Area Retail Sales MoM - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news. Euro Area Retail Sales MoM - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on October of 2018.