Retail Sales Unexpectedly Fall 0.4 Percent, Discretionary Categories Weak
April 12, 2013 at 09:30 AM EDT
March retail sales fell 0.4 percent in a report released Friday morning from the U.S. Census Bureau at the Department of Commerce. This was the biggest drop in nine months, and economists were expecting sales to be unchanged. Excluding motor vehicles and parts, which fell 0.6 percent, retail sales dipped