June retail sales, which show trends in consumer spending in the United States, rose 1.0% from the previous month, rising for the first time in two months.
However, as record inflation continues, caution is likely to continue on the future of the economy.
June retail sales announced by the US Department of Commerce on the 15th were 680.6 billion dollars, about 94 trillion yen in Japanese yen, 1.0% higher than the previous month and turned to increase for the first time in two months.
The breakdown is that "gas stations" increased by 3.6% due to the rise in selling prices due to high crude oil prices, "online mail order" increased by 2.2%, and "restaurants and bars" also increased by 1.0%.
In the United States, consumer prices in June rose 9.1% from the same month of the previous year, a record level for the first time in 40 and a half years, but due to the trend of improvement in employment and wages, consumer prices are on the rise. A certain degree of resilience was shown.
However, last month's "Industrial Production Index," which shows the production trends of companies announced on the same day, fell 0.2% from the previous month, showing a slowdown in economic activity.
In addition to the prolonged rise in prices, the Fed, the central bank, is accelerating monetary tightening to cool consumption and investment in order to curb this inflation, and the U.S. economy is likely to remain wary of the future of the economy. is.