Canada: Retail Sales up 1.0% in January

FXstreet.com (Barcelona) - Both the headline Retail Sales and the Ex-autos data rose and beat consensus expectations in January, at +1.0% (consensus of 0.9%) and +0.5% (consensus of 0.3%), respectively. December data was re-vised from -2.1% to -2.3 and from -0.9% to -1.0%, respectively.