August 2018 Retail Sales
Submitted by Atlas Indicators Investment Advisors on October 1st, 2018Retails sales decelerated in August 2018 according to data from the Census Bureau. Retail receipts grew 0.1 percent in the period after gaining 0.7 percent in July. And that’s the rub; July’s tally was upwardly revised from an already strong 0.5 percent count in the initial report. This strength gave August a tough comparison, so even though the month-over-month gr