Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DebtBomb who wrote (253523)	6/11/2010 9:16:40 AM
From: Perspective	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

< The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for May, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes, were $362.5 billion, a decrease of 1.2 percent (±0.5%) from the previous month, but 6.9 percent (±0.7%) above May 2009.> calculatedriskblog.com So I guess this says the Memorial Day sales were a bust? What I don't get is that the individual corporate numbers weren't that bad. Did they apply different seasonal adjustments? Or is somebody fibbing? Substantial opportunity for differences of opinion in seasonal adjustments since Memorial Day weekend went into June this year. BC