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US Retail Sales

US Retail Sales 15 March 2016

US Retail Sales 15 March 2016: -0.1% for February 2016, in line with the forecast and against -0.4% in January 2016 (first reported as 0.2%). It was released on Tue 15 Mar 2016 at 12:30 UTC (8:30 AM ET).

These figures were verified on 4 Oct 2026 from the source: U.S. Census Bureau. This page reports the release as published: the figures, the consensus forecast and what a print like it usually does to the currency.

Actual
-0.1%
February 2016
Forecast
-0.1%
The market consensus
Previous
-0.4%
As the source gives it

What a print like this usually does

In line with the forecast: The dollar often changes little unless details or revisions are surprising.

US Retail Sales 15 March 2016: -0.1% for February 2016 against a -0.1% forecast, with the last 9 releases
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The last 9 releases · times in UTC
ReleasedForActualForecastPrevious
15 Mar 2016Feb-0.1%-0.1%-0.4%
12 Feb 2016Jan0.2%0.1%0.2%
15 Jan 2016Dec-0.1%0%0.4%
11 Jun 2015May1.2%1.1%0.2%(R)
13 May 2015Apr0.0%0.2%1.1%(R)
14 Apr 2015Mar0.9%1.0%-0.5%(R)
12 Mar 2015Feb-0.6%0.3%-0.8%
12 Feb 2015Jan-0.8%-0.5%-0.9%
14 Jan 2015Dec-0.9%-0.1%0.4%(R)
The release before:US Retail Sales 12 February 2016The release after:US Retail Sales 13 April 2016US Retail Sales: every recent resultThis week’s economic calendar