{"id":60388,"date":"2026-08-24T01:26:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T01:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vtmarkets.com\/en-ca\/uncategorized\/new-zealand-retail-sales-ex-autos-rise-0-7-in-q2-pointing-to-softer-household-spending\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T01:26:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T01:26:54","slug":"new-zealand-retail-sales-ex-autos-rise-0-7-in-q2-pointing-to-softer-household-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vtmarkets.com\/en-ca\/live-updates\/new-zealand-retail-sales-ex-autos-rise-0-7-in-q2-pointing-to-softer-household-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Retail Sales Ex Autos Rise 0.7% in Q2, Pointing to Softer Household Spending"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Zealand\u2019s retail sales excluding motor vehicles rose 0.7% quarter-on-quarter in the second quarter, easing from 1.0% in the prior quarter. The latest reading points to slower momentum in underlying retail activity compared with the previous period.<\/p>\n

Deceleration in Retail Sales Growth<\/h3>\n

On a sequential basis, the 0.3 percentage point deceleration from 1.0% to 0.7% suggests household spending growth moderated through 2Q. The data refer to retail sales ex autos on a QoQ basis for New Zealand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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New Zealand retail sales excluding motor vehicles rose 0.7% in Q2, slowing from 1.0% previously, indicating moderating spending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":56381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-live-updates"],"acf":{"acf_article_selection_author":null},"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\t