Retail Sales YoY

The Italian Retail Sales YoY index depicts a combined figure of retail goods and service sales change over the same month a year ago. The index is characterized by seasonality and is considered as an economic health indicator. The index is published by Istat every month.

Italian Retail Sales YoY

Retail Sales were up by 1% in May 2017 versus May 2016, beating the consensus estimate of 0.8%. Historically the index reached a low of – 6.6% in April 2005 and a high of 17.5% in August 2005 respectively.