November 2018 Monthly Consumer Update: US, UK and China

Executive Summary

Coresight Research’s monthly reports keep you up to date on US and UK retail sales, US retail traffic and in-store metrics, selected US retailers’ same-store sales and key global consumer indicators. Click here to view our full collection of Monthly Reports.

Our Monthly Consumer Update rounds up key metrics that reflect consumer demand in the US, the UK and China.  We focus on direct, leading indicators of the health of the consumer economy: wage growth, price changes and retail sales growth.

Highlights from our November Consumer Update:

• In the US, food price inflation remains low, year-over-year.
• In the UK, earnings growth continued to outpace consumer price growth.
• In China, retail sales grew 8.1% year over year in November, slowing from October’s 8.6% growth and September’s 9.2% growth.