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\u00a0Statistics Canada, released just moments ago, showed a decline in retail sales in Canada by 1.4% to $65.3 billion in March, after declining by 0.2% in February, as sales declined in 5 of nine sub-sectors representing 55.5% of retail trade.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Underlying sales, which exclude petrol stations and trade in cars and spare parts, declined by 0.3% in March, compared to a decline of about 0.7% in February.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The decline in sales in the auto sector led by 4.4% for the first time in eight months, and the decline in sales at petrol stations and fuel sellers by 3.9% led to the losses of retail sales in March, while the largest decline in the main index came from the retail trade of clothing, accessories and shoes, by 1.2%.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0Statistics Canada, released just moments ago, showed a decline in retail sales in Canada by 1.4% to $65.3 billion in March, after declining by 0.2% in February, as sales declined in 5 of nine sub-sectors representing 55.5% of retail trade. Underlying sales, which exclude petrol stations and trade in cars and spare parts, declined by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6265,"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-6669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-currency-markets"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n