retail sales

This monitor is a reflection of how we update our assessments of economic growth in real-time as we get meaningful updates from macroeconomic data releases. It provides a more timely and meaningful gauge of economic activity growth than what GDP and similar summary indicators provide. Please see here for more

Bottom Line: The consumer has proven to be resilient in its spending patterns in a number of respects, but real food consumption has not. Given the correction in domestic food consumption, and the potential peaking out of 'food at home' inflation, food services inflation has plausible potential to

Retail sales showed strength in January. As a proxy for gross labor income trends, it confirms both (1) the resilience we're seeing in the labor market and (2) the amplified role of residual seasonality (December understates growth, January overstates/rebounds). Real-time data-watching was already complicated enough due to