Eurozone retail sales slide further: Eurostat
(BRUSSELS) - Retailers in the 16 nations using the euro saw their sales fall in July, the latest in a downward trend broken only in April this year, according to official EU data released Thursday.
The volume of retail sales in the eurozone dipped 0.2 percent in July over one month and 1.8 percent over one year, an improvement on June's comparison, the European Union's Eurostat data agency said.
There was better news for the 27-nation European Union as a whole where retail trade increased by 0.3 percent in July.
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