{"id":29150,"date":"2021-02-18T14:38:35","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T20:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/?p=29150"},"modified":"2021-02-18T14:42:03","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T20:42:03","slug":"retail-sector-sees-boost-from-stimulus-checks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/news\/retail-sector-sees-boost-from-stimulus-checks\/","title":{"rendered":"Retail sector sees boost from stimulus checks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Retail sales jumped 5.3% <\/strong><strong>in January<\/strong><strong>, well ahead of the 1.2% expectation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Americans flocked to spend their stimulus checks in January, sending retail sales for the month up 5.3% in a better-than-expected start to 2021, according to a government report Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Economists surveyed by Dow Jones were expecting a rise of just 1.2%.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Excluding the auto sector, sales rose 5.9%, also far ahead of the 1% estimate in a display of unexpected strength from the consumer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A month after Congress approved a $900 billion additional stimulus package to counteract\u00a0the Covid-19 pandemic, shoppers were armed with $600 checks they used to buy a variety of goods.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Electronics and appliances saw the biggest increase, up 14.7% for the month, while furniture and home furnishing stores were up 12% and online spending at nonstore retailers jumped 11%.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retail sales jumped 5.3% in January, well ahead of the  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":29156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1338],"tags":[20,69],"class_list":["post-29150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news","tag-retail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29160,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29150\/revisions\/29160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}