Retail sales bounce back in February

April 21, 2011

The following is excerpted from the 21 April 2011 edition of Reuters Canada.

Consumers gave a shot in the arm to Canada's economy in February, helping push retail sales up by 0.4 percent in a month in which most other indicators disappointed, according to Statistics Canada data on Thursday.

It is the last piece of data before the April 29 release of February gross domestic product data. In volume terms, used for calculating real GDP growth, retail sales rose by 0.4 percent...

This article is available in its entirety on the Reuters Canada website at:

http://ca.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idCATRE73K3D520110421

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