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Italy Retail Sales MoM

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History

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Impact:

Medium

Source: National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT)

Latest Release:

Date:

Surprise:

0.4%

EUR

Actual:

0.6%

Forecast: 0.2%

Previous/Revision:

-0.4%

Period: Jun

Next Release:

Date:

Forecast: 0.2%

Period: Jul

What Does It Measure?

The Italy Retail Sales MoM measures the changes in the total sales of retail goods and services in Italy from one month to the next. This indicator focuses primarily on consumer spending, which is a crucial component of the country's economic activity and assesses key areas such as production levels, consumer confidence, and overall economic health.

Frequency

The Retail Sales MoM report is released monthly, typically within the first week of the following month, and consists of preliminary estimates that may be revised in subsequent releases.

Why Do Traders Care?

Traders care about the Retail Sales MoM because it serves as a timely indicator of consumer spending trends which impact financial markets. An increase in retail sales can boost confidence in the economy, leading to a bullish sentiment in the currency and stock markets, whereas a decrease may indicate weakening demand and have bearish implications.

What Is It Derived From?

The Retail Sales MoM is derived from data collected through surveys of a representative sample of retail establishments, encompassing various sectors such as food, clothing, and electronics. It employs methodologies that include weighting according to the size and sales volume of the reporting firms, ensuring a comprehensive view of the retail environment.

Description

The Retail Sales MoM compares sales figures from the previous month, allowing analysts to detect short-term trends and shifts in consumer behavior. It is crucial in assessing the immediate impact of economic factors such as seasonal changes, market promotion, and evolving consumer preferences.

Additional Notes

The Retail Sales MoM is considered a coincident economic indicator, reflecting current economic conditions rather than predicting future trends. It is often compared with consumer confidence indices and other economic reports to gauge the overall economic landscape, particularly within the Eurozone.

Bullish or Bearish for Currency and Stocks

Higher than expected: Bullish for EUR, Bullish for Stocks. Lower than expected: Bearish for EUR, Bearish for Stocks.

Legend

High Potential Impact
This event has a strong potential to move markets significantly. If the 'Actual' value differs enough from the forecast or if the 'Previous' value is significantly revised, it signals new information that markets may rapidly adjust to.

Medium Potential Impact
This event may cause moderate market movement, especially if the 'Actual' deviates from the forecast or there's a notable revision to the 'Previous' value.

Low Potential Impact
This event is unlikely to affect market pricing unless there's an unexpected surprise or a major revision to prior data.

Surprise - Currency May Strengthen
Actual deviated from Forecast on a medium or high impact event and historically could strengthen the currency.

Surprise - Currency May Weaken
Actual deviated from Forcast on a medium or high impact event and historically could weaken the currency.

Big Surprise - Currency More Likely To Strengthen
'Actual' deviated from 'Forecast' more than 75% of historical deviations on a medium or high impact event and may likely strengthen the currency.

Big Surprise - Currency More Likely To Weaken
'Actual' deviated from 'Forecast' more than 75% of historical deviations on a medium or high impact event and may likely weaken the currency

Green Number	Better than forecast for the currency (or previous revise better)
Red Number	Worse than forecast for the currency (or previous revise better)
Hawkish	Supports higher interest rates to fight inflation, strengthening the currency but weighing on stocks.
Dovish	Favors lower rates to boost growth, weakening the currency but lifting stocks.

Date	Actual	Forecast	Previous	Surprise
Aug 01, 2025	0.6%	0.2%	-0.4%	0.4%
Jul 04, 2025	-0.4%	0.5%	0.7%	-0.9%
Jun 05, 2025	0.7%	0.2%	-0.4%	0.5%
May 07, 2025	-0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	-0.7%
Apr 04, 2025	0.1%	0.2%	-0.4%	-0.1%
Mar 05, 2025	-0.4%	0.1%	0.6%	-0.5%
Feb 05, 2025	0.6%	0.1%	-0.4%	0.5%
Jan 10, 2025	-0.4%	0.2%	-0.5%	-0.6%
Dec 06, 2024	-0.5%	0.9%	1.3%	-1.4%
Nov 08, 2024	1.2%	0.2%	-0.3%	1%
Oct 04, 2024	-0.5%	0.2%	0.5%	-0.7%
Sep 06, 2024	0.5%	0.1%	-0.2%	0.4%
Aug 02, 2024	-0.2%	0.2%	0.4%	-0.4%
Jul 05, 2024	0.4%	0.2%	-0.1%	0.2%
Jun 06, 2024	-0.1%	0.3%	-0.2%	-0.4%
May 08, 2024	0%	0.2%	0.1%	-0.2%
Apr 10, 2024	0.1%	0.2%	0%	-0.1%
Mar 15, 2024	1%	0.2%	-0.1%	0.8%
Feb 07, 2024	-0.1%	0.2%	0.4%	-0.3%
Jan 10, 2024	0.4%	0.1%	0.4%	0.3%
Dec 07, 2023	0.4%	0.1%	-0.4%	0.3%
Nov 08, 2023	-0.3%	0.4%	-0.4%	-0.7%
Oct 06, 2023	-0.4%	0%	0.4%	-0.4%
Sep 07, 2023	0.4%	0.2%	-0.2%	0.2%
Aug 03, 2023	-0.2%	0.4%	0.6%	-0.6%
Jul 07, 2023	0.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.6%
Jun 07, 2023	0.2%	0.3%	0%	-0.1%
May 05, 2023	0%	0%	0%
Apr 05, 2023	-0.1%	-0.7%	1.7%	0.6%
Mar 08, 2023	1.7%	-0.2%	-0.2%	1.9%
Feb 08, 2023	-0.2%	-0.8%	0.8%	0.6%
Jan 11, 2023	0.8%	-0.9%	-0.3%	1.7%
Dec 07, 2022	-0.4%	-0.6%	0.5%	0.2%
Nov 08, 2022	0.5%	-0.5%	-0.3%	1%
Oct 07, 2022	-0.4%	-0.5%	1.3%	0.1%
Sep 07, 2022	1.3%	-0.3%	-1.1%	1.6%
Aug 03, 2022	-1.1%	-1.1%	2%
Jul 11, 2022	1.9%	-1.2%	0.3%	3.1%
Jun 08, 2022	0%	0.3%	-0.6%	-0.3%
May 06, 2022	-0.5%	-0.6%	0.7%	0.1%
Apr 08, 2022	0.7%	0.7%	-0.6%
Mar 08, 2022	-0.5%	0.3%	0.8%	-0.8%
Feb 08, 2022	0.9%	0.6%	-0.4%	0.3%
Jan 11, 2022	-0.4%	0.6%	0.1%	-1%
Dec 06, 2021	0.1%	0%	1%	0.1%
Nov 05, 2021	0.8%	0.8%	0.8%
Oct 07, 2021	0.4%	0.7%	-0.3%	-0.3%
Sep 08, 2021	-0.4%	0.4%	0.7%	-0.8%
Aug 04, 2021	0.7%	0.6%	-0.1%	0.1%
Jul 07, 2021	0.2%	1%	-0.1%	-0.8%
Jun 08, 2021	-0.4%	0.8%	0%	-1.2%
May 07, 2021	-0.1%	0.1%	5.9%	-0.2%
Apr 09, 2021	6.6%	2.6%	-2.7%	4%
Mar 05, 2021	-3%	-3.2%	2.4%	0.2%
Feb 05, 2021	2.5%	-2%	-7.3%	4.5%
Jan 12, 2021	-6.9%	-0.8%	0.5%	-6.1%
Dec 04, 2020	0.6%	0.4%	-0.7%	0.2%
Nov 06, 2020	-0.8%	-2.6%	8.2%	1.8%
Oct 07, 2020	8.2%	0.7%	-6%	7.5%
Sep 08, 2020	-2.2%	5.1%	10.2%	-7.3%
Jul 31, 2020	12.1%	2%	24%	10.1%
Jul 07, 2020	24.3%	8.6%	-10.7%	15.7%
Jun 05, 2020	-10.5%	-12%	-21.3%	1.5%
May 07, 2020	-20.5%	-12.7%	0.9%	-7.8%
Apr 07, 2020	0.8%	0.4%	0.1%	0.4%
Mar 06, 2020	0%	-1%	0.5%	1%
Feb 07, 2020	0.5%	0.4%	-0.2%	0.1%
Jan 13, 2020	-0.2%	0.3%	-0.3%	-0.5%
Dec 06, 2019	-0.2%	-0.4%	0.6%	0.2%
Nov 07, 2019	0.7%	1.1%	-0.5%	-0.4%
Oct 08, 2019	-0.6%	0%	-0.6%	-0.6%
Sep 06, 2019	-0.5%	0.4%	1.9%	-0.9%
Aug 02, 2019	1.9%	0.4%	-0.6%	1.5%
Jul 09, 2019	-0.7%	0.2%	0%	-0.9%
Jun 07, 2019	0%	0.2%	-0.3%	-0.2%
May 10, 2019	-0.3%	0.3%	0.1%	-0.6%
Apr 09, 2019	0.1%	0.1%	0.6%
Mar 07, 2019	0.5%	0.3%	-0.6%	0.2%
Feb 07, 2019	-0.7%	0.7%	0.6%	-1.4%
Jan 10, 2019	0.7%	0.2%	0.2%	0.5%
Dec 07, 2018	0.1%	-0.2%	-0.8%	0.3%
Nov 07, 2018	-0.8%	-0.1%	0.6%	-0.7%
Oct 05, 2018	0.7%	0.2%	0%	0.5%
Sep 07, 2018	-0.1%	0.2%	-0.1%	-0.3%
Aug 03, 2018	-0.2%	0.1%	1.1%	-0.3%
Jul 06, 2018	0.8%	0.3%	-0.6%	0.5%
Jun 07, 2018	-0.7%	0.2%	-0.2%	-0.9%
May 09, 2018	-0.2%	0.1%	0.7%	-0.3%
Apr 11, 2018	0.4%	0.3%	-0.5%	0.1%
Mar 14, 2018	-0.5%	-0.1%	-0.9%	-0.4%
Feb 07, 2018	-0.3%	-0.4%	0.9%	0.1%
Jan 11, 2018	1.1%	0.3%	-1%	0.8%
Dec 11, 2017	-1%	-0.1%	0.8%	-0.9%
Nov 07, 2017	0.9%	0.2%	-0.2%	0.7%
Oct 06, 2017	-0.3%	0.2%	-0.4%	-0.5%
Sep 06, 2017	-0.2%	0.4%	0.6%	-0.6%
Aug 04, 2017	0.6%	0.2%	0%	0.4%
Jul 07, 2017	-0.1%	0.3%	-0.4%	-0.4%
Jun 07, 2017	-0.1%	0.2%	0%	-0.3%
May 09, 2017	0%	0.2%	-0.2%	-0.2%
Apr 07, 2017	-0.3%	-0.1%	1.4%	-0.2%
Mar 15, 2017	1.4%	0.1%	-0.5%	1.3%
Feb 23, 2017	-0.5%	0.2%	-0.7%	-0.7%
Jan 26, 2017	-0.7%	0.1%	1.2%	-0.8%
Dec 22, 2016	1.2%	0.4%	-0.5%	0.8%
Nov 25, 2016	-0.6%	0%	-0.2%	-0.6%
Oct 26, 2016	-0.1%	0.4%	-0.2%	-0.5%
Sep 26, 2016	-0.3%	0%	0.3%	-0.3%
Aug 30, 2016	0.2%	0.2%	0.3%
Jul 22, 2016	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
Jun 24, 2016	0.1%	0.2%	-0.6%	-0.1%
May 26, 2016	-0.6%	0.2%	0.3%	-0.8%
Apr 22, 2016	0.3%	-0.1%	0%	0.4%
Mar 24, 2016	0%	0.5%	-0.1%	-0.5%
Feb 25, 2016	-0.1%	0.5%	0.2%	-0.6%
Jan 25, 2016	0.3%	0.2%	-0.3%	0.1%
Dec 23, 2015	-0.3%	0.3%	-0.1%	-0.6%
Nov 25, 2015	-0.1%	0.5%	0.2%	-0.6%
Oct 23, 2015	0.3%	0.3%	0.4%
Sep 24, 2015	0.4%	0.2%	-0.4%	0.2%
Aug 31, 2015	-0.3%	0.1%	-0.2%	-0.4%
Jul 22, 2015	-0.1%	0.1%	0.7%	-0.2%
Jun 23, 2015	0.7%	0.24%	-0.1%	0.46%
May 22, 2015	-0.1%	0.2%	-0.1%	-0.3%