Euro-Area Retail Sales Rose 0.9% in June, Led by Germany
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European retail sales rebounded in June from a drop in the previous month, led by Germany.
Sales in the 17-nation euro region grew 0.9 percent from May, when they fell 1.3 percent, the European Union’s statistics office in Luxembourg said today. Economists had projected a gain of 0.5 percent, the median of 22 estimates in a Bloomberg News survey showed. Sales fell 0.4 percent from a year ago.