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. |
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