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The Commerce Department's monthly retail sales gauge on Tuesday showed an unexpected 0.2% decline in February.

But the overall retail sales gauge fell short of Wall Street's expectations of a 0.3% increase and showed slower growth than in June, which had enjoyed a 0.6% advance.

Still, the retail sales gauge seems to have recovered from the frigid weather that swept through the country during the holiday season and at the beginning of the year.

The government's retail sales gauge "was far from robust" and fails "to eradicate fears of a consumer slowdown undermining growth in the second half of the year," said Lindsey M. Piegza, chief economist at Sterne Agee.

The country's main retail-sales gauge has remained strong this year, vindicating a decision by the Central Bank in April to leave interest rates unchanged at 4.25%.

Same-store sales, a gauge of retail performance, were flat in the third quarter.

The Nets' chief executive, Brett Yormark, said the team started sales to gauge how many season-ticket holders would re-up for the move to Brooklyn.

China's retail sales, a gauge of domestic demand, rose 14.7percentt in the first two months compared with the same period a year earlier, the government said.

John Lewis will be opening its online store at midnight on 27 November and Murphy says his team will closely examine the first flush of sales to gauge if they need to tweak the system.

This illuminates what Dan Coats, national intelligence director, means when he calls America's "unsustainable" debt a "dire threat to our economic and national security". How enthusiastically Asia participates in next week's Treasury sales may gauge where Trump's bankers stand.

Same store sales, a gauge that removes volatility by considering only stores open more than a year, slid 1.2% in the U.S. but soared 25.8% online.