U.K. Retail Sales Rise Less Than Forecast on Clothing Demand

U.K. retail sales rose less than economists forecast in July as demand at clothes and household-goods stores dropped.

Sales including fuel rose 0.2 percent from June, when they increased a revised 0.8 percent, the Office for National Statistics said today in London. The median forecast of 19 economists in a Bloomberg News survey was for a 0.3 percent increase in July. On the year, sales were unchanged.