Retail trade increases by 0.7 per cent

Australian retail trade at current prices rose 0.7 per cent in July to a seasonally adjusted $20.4 billion.

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Published 31 August 2010 12:19pm

Updated 24 February 2015 4:47pm

Source: AAP

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Australian retail trade at current prices rose 0.7 per cent in July to a seasonally adjusted $20.4 billion, from an upwardly revised $20.250 billion in June, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said today.

The median market forecast was for retail sales to have risen by 0.4 per cent in the month.

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