The sales in US retailers rose more than expected in August.
They increased by 0.6 percent compared to the previous month, as the Ministry of Commerce announced in Washington on Tuesday. Undernwirt: On average, an increase of 0.2 percent expected an average.
In addition, the numbers for the previous month were corrected. In July the sales rose by revised 0.6 percent. Initially, only an increase of 0.5 percent was determined.
“Regardless of the deteriorated consumer: Consumers have spent more interior: more output inside than a month earlier,” said Analyst Ralf Umlauf from Landesbank Hessen-Thuringia. So the consumer climate raised by the University of Michigan had complained in September. “Regardless of the surprise, there is hardly any doubt about monetary loosening in tomorrow’s Fed decision,” writes circulation. Economists are currently assuming that the US Federal Reserve Fed is predominantly announced this Wednesday an interest rate reduction by 0.25 percentage points.