April 10 (Reuters) - Slovak retail sales rose a real 4.6
percent year-on-year in February, accelerating from a 0.9
percent increase in January,...
...data from the Slovak Statistics
Office released on Tuesday showed.
SELECTED SECTOR SALES FEB 07 JAN 07 FEB 06 JAN-DEC 06
(pct change yr/yr)
Retail sales 4.6 0.9 6.5 8.8
Hotels and restaurants 0.9 -0.5 18.9 14.5
Vehicle sales
and maintenance 34.1 38.6 9.7 13.6
NOTE: Analysts in a Reuters survey earlier this month had
expected retail sales to have risen by 5.0 percent in February.
(Reporting by Martin Santa in Bratislava)
Keywords: SLOVAKIA ECONOMY/RETAIL