The Commerce Department also reported, however, that business inventories in March were flat for a second consecutive month, suggesting that restocking was probably not as big an addition to growth in the first three months of the year as initially thought.
Consumer prices in May were flat.
The Labor Department said consumer prices in April were flat, as economists had predicted.
Ratings drive billings, and for WGN, the ratings for the three-month period ending in March were flat.
Adjusting for inflation, retail sales between August and October were flat compared with the previous three months.The lure of bargains may yet bring more consumers into the high street in the rest of December and January.
Takings in April were flat on a year ago in total terms, which does not adjust for the effect of new store openings, as a drop in fashion sales offset a rare rise in food sales, the BRC said.
Our seropositivity rates by April–June were flat with respect to age (Table 2), while the observation across the world was that for pandemic H1N1 school-age children were most affected with high infection rates whereas few elderly were infected.
When excluding food and energy, the rise in core consumer prices in October was flat for the third consecutive month, and on an annual basis, core prices were up 0.6 percent, the smallest rise since the government started keeping the records in 1957.
Spending on private construction in September was flat, at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $482 billion, about the same as in August.
Burberry recorded a 4 per cent fall in the second quarter of 2015, and revenue in the three months to end December was flat compared with 2014.
