Spain retail sales rise 1.5% y/y in April

Reuters

Published May 27, 2022 03:22AM ET

(Reuters) - Spanish retail sales rose 1.5% in April from a year earlier on a seasonally and calendar-adjusted basis, after falling 4.1% in March, the National Statistics Institute (INE) said on Friday.

The growth compared with a 1.9% contraction expected by economists polled by Reuters.