According to provisional results of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), retail turnover in January 2015 in Germany increased 5.3% in real terms and 4.1% in nominal terms compared with the corresponding month of the previous year. The number of days open for sale was 26 in January 2015 and 26 in January 2014, too. When adjusted for calendar and seasonal variations (Census-X-12-ARIMA), the January turnover was in real terms 2.9% and in nominal terms 2.2% larger than that in December 2014. (full story)