{"id":79373,"date":"2021-09-17T00:59:14","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T04:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=79373"},"modified":"2021-09-17T00:34:02","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T04:34:02","slug":"retail-sales-post-surprise-gain-as-consumers-show-strength-despite-delta-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2021\/retail-sales-post-surprise-gain-as-consumers-show-strength-despite-delta-fears.html","title":{"rendered":"Retail sales post surprise gain as consumers show strength despite delta fears"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) Retail sales posted a surprise gain in August despite fears that escalating Covid cases and supply chain issues would hold back consumers, the Census Bureau reported Thursday. Sales increased 0.7% for the month against the Dow Jones estimate of a decline of 0.8%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/09\/16\/retail-sales-unexpectedly-rise-0point7percent-in-august-vs-expected-decline-of-0point8percent.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Retail sales posted a surprise gain in August despite fears that escalating Covid cases and supply chain issues would hold back consumers, the Census Bureau reported Thursday. Sales increased 0.7% for the month against the Dow Jones estimate of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79374,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79373\/revisions\/79374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}