{"id":415,"date":"2010-05-06T09:51:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T13:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intuitiveinvestor.com\/web\/?p=415"},"modified":"2018-08-19T10:11:15","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T14:11:15","slug":"retail-sales-disappoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/2010\/05\/06\/retail-sales-disappoint\/","title":{"rendered":"Retail sales disappoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Another piece of economic data was reported today, retail sales.\u00a0 While the numbers were disappointing to some, this is only in comparison to high expectations after a robust March.\u00a0 Actual same-store retail sales were up 1.7%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><strong>Analysis:<\/strong> While some folks may be disappointed by the retail sales figure, they are still up.\u00a0 That is a good thing.\u00a0 The U.S. consumer continues to open his\/her wallet and is continuing to spend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><strong>Importance grade:<\/strong> 4; if the number had been negative the grade would have been much higher.\u00a0 That would have been an indication of a U.S. consumer still very\u00a0uncomfortable with the economic climate.\u00a0 Instead, the number, while below expectations, was positive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Jason<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another piece of economic data was reported today, retail sales.\u00a0 While the numbers were disappointing to some, this is only in comparison to high expectations after a robust March.\u00a0 Actual same-store retail sales were up 1.7%. Analysis: While some folks may be disappointed by the retail sales figure, they are still up.\u00a0 That is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}