According to Australian Bureau of Statistics, seasonally adjusted, Australia’s retail trade figures show that sales fell 0.3% in January 2020 compared to December 2019, following a fall of 0.7% in December 2019.
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The US Department of Commerce announced that the US trade deficit in goods and services decreased by 6.7% year-on-year to US$45.3 billion in January 2020. Exports of goods and services fell by 0.4% year-on-year to US$208.6 billion, while imports of goods and services fell by 1.6% to US$253.9 billion over a year earlier.
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According to Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian GDP, seasonally adjusted, was up 2.2% year-on-year in Q4 2019. Compared with Q3 2019, GDP grew 0.5% in Q4 2019.
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According to Eurostat, the volume of retail trade rose by 1.7% in the euro area and by 2.1% in the EU in January 2020, over a year earlier. Compared with December 2019, the volume of retail trade increased by 0.6% in the euro area and by 0.5% in the EU in January 2020.
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According to the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), Germany's retail turnover increased by 1.8% year on year in real terms in January 2020. Compared to the previous month, January turnover rose by 0.9% adjusted for calendar and seasonal variations.
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Eurostat released that the unemployment rate of member countries in the European Union was 6.6% in January 2020, down from 6.9% in January 2019. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in the Euro area was 7.4% in January 2020, down from 7.8% in January 2019.
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According to the report released by Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japanese retail sales fell by 0.4% in January 2020 compared with the same period last year. On a seasonally adjusted monthly basis, retail sales rose by 0.6% compared with December 2019.
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According to the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the unemployment rate of Germany was 3.2% in January 2020. The number of unemployed persons was 1.41 million in the same period.
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According to Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan, Japanese unemployment rate, seasonally adjusted, was 2.4% in January 2020. The number of unemployed persons was 1.59 million, a decrease of 70 thousand from the previous year.
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According to the Eurostat, Euro area annual inflation was 1.4 in January 2020, up from 1.3% in December 2019. EU annual inflation was 1.7% in January 2020, up from 1.6% in December 2019.
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According to Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, the consumer price index (CPI) for Japan in January 2020 was 102.2 up 0.7% compared with January 2019 and remained unchanged compared with December 2019.
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According to Australian Bureau of Statistics, seasonally adjusted, Australia’s unemployment rate was 5.3% in January 2020. The number of unemployed persons increased by 31,000 to 725,900 in the same month.
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According to Office for National Statistics (ONS), UK retail sales increased by 0.8% year-on-year in January 2020 and increased 0.9% from the previous month.
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According to the UK National Statistics Office, UK's CPI rose 1.8 year-on-year in January 2020, up from 1.4% in December 2019.
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According to the Office for National Statistics in UK, UK unemployment rate was 3.8% in Q4 2019. The number of unemployed persons was 1.29 million in the same quarter.
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