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View the Archive..September 20, 2024RETAIL TRADE JULY 2024 Monthly (seasonally adjusted, July 2024 vs June 2024)
In Nova Scotia retail trade increased 1.6% to $1,791 million. Nationally, retail trade increased 0.9% to $66.4 billion. Only two provinces (Newfoundland and Labrador and Ontario) reported declines in retail trade. All others reported rising retail sales, led by Saskatchewan.
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September 20, 2024HALIFAX BUSINESS CONDITIONS: SEPTEMBER 9 - SEPTEMBER 15, 2024 Statistics Canada has released real-time local business conditions from September 9 to September 15, 2024. Reference dates reported now refer to the date following the end of the reference week. These data are not adjusted for seasonality and monthly or weekly changes may simply reflect regular seasonal patterns.
From August 10 of 2020 to September 16, 2024, the local business conditions index for Halifax increased by 424.8%. Regina, St. John's, and Sherbrooke reported the ...
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September 20, 2024BANK OF JAPAN MONETARY POLICY On September 20, 2024, the Policy Board of the Bank of Japan decided to maintain their uncollateralized overnight call rate around 0.25%.
Japan's economy has recovered moderately. Moderate growth in overseas economies has supported economic growth, to some extent, but exports and industrial production has remained flat. Business fixed investments improved moderately with improvements in corporate profits. There have been broad-based increases in wages. Consumer price index (all items ...
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September 20, 2024JAPAN CPI INFLATION, AUGUST 2024 
Japan’s inflation (all items, year-over-year growth in consumer price index) accelerated to to 3.0% in August 2024. Japan's underlying inflation (all items excluding fresh food and energy) increased to 2.1%.
Japan's energy prices were up 12.1% in August 2024 compared with August 2023. Japan's food inflation increased to 3.6% over this period. ...
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September 20, 2024UK RETAIL SALES, AUGUST 2024 Month-over-month (August 2024 vs July 2024, seasonally adjusted)
UK retail sales values rose by 0.4% while volumes (adjusted to remove the effects of price changes) were up 1.0%.
Internet sales were essentially unchanged and accounted for 27.6% of total retail sales.
Year-over-Year (August 2024 vs August 2023)
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