What is the difference between Core Retail Sales & Retail Sales? And what does m/m stand for?
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The "core retail sales" number excludes automobile sales from the "retail sales" number. Auto numbers can be pretty volatile and can push around the retail number quite a bit - so the core number excludes their effect.
Also, m/m means month-over-month. So if sales were up 13,000 m/m that means that this month's sales were 13,000 higher than at this time last month.
