Thursday, Jun 17, 2010
More number fudging
BBC News: UK retail sales rise 0.6% in May
Sales have only risen 0.6% in May because they've downgraded last months 0.3% rise down to a big fat 0%
UK retail sales rose by 0.6% in May, official figures show, up 2.2% on the same time last year.
The bigger-than-expected rise was helped by a 1.7% jump in household goods sales and a 1% increase in food sales, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.
Analysts said sales of televisions and food ahead of the World Cup had boosted the figures.
But the ONS revised down its sales growth figure for April.
It said retail sales failed to grow in April compared with the previous month, down from the 0.3% growth initially reported
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1. mr g said...
And they'll plummet when England's World Cup campaign goes t*ts up.