• Prior -0.5%; revised to -0.3%

Euro area retail sales were only marginally higher on the month, though it isn’t immediately clear how much of this captures the sales from Black Friday and Cyber Monday. If it doesn’t, then that’s a poor showing and reaffirms softer household spending towards the end of last year. Here’s the monthly breakdown:

This article was written by Justin Low at www.forexlive.com.