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\u00a0UK retail sales fell -3.7 percent in December, according to the Office for National Statistics, compared to 1.4 percent in November, before being revised to 1%, missing expectations of a -0.6% decline. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n In details, non-food sales declined by 7.1% in December, coinciding with the decline in sub-sectors and the spread of the Omicron mutant in December. Auto fuel sales declined by 4.7% and food sales declined by 1%. Online sales rose slightly to 26.6% from 26.3% . <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The British pound is trading at 1.3585 levels against the US dollar.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0UK retail sales fell -3.7 percent in December, according to the Office for National Statistics, compared to 1.4 percent in November, before being revised to 1%, missing expectations of a -0.6% decline. In details, non-food sales declined by 7.1% in December, coinciding with the decline in sub-sectors and the spread of the Omicron mutant in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-currency-markets"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n