The April estimate of retail trade has been released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics with the trend estimates unchanged from March this year. Food retail has experienced weak trend growth for the sixth straight month, with a decline estimate in the trend growth only witnessed in New South Wales. This decline in trend for NSW has now been seen for five months with all other states experiencing moderate or weak trend growth for the month of April. Across all industries retail turnover was down... ...Read more »

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has released the March estimate of retail trade. The trend estimates for retail trade were again positive with a .2% rise in March to go with similar rises in January and February this year. Victoria, Queensland, the Northern Territory and South Australia have all witnessed moderate growth in the food retail sector for the last three months but these moderate rises have been offset by declines in trend estimates for the past four months in New South... ...Read more »