MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish retail sales registered a smaller contraction in June than in the previous month, as authorities gradually lifted the strict lockdown imposed in mid-March, the National Statistics Institute (INE) said on Wednesday.
Retail sales fell 4.7% in June from a year earlier on a calendar-adjusted basis, after falling a revised 18.5% in May, INE said. The May figure was revised from a preliminary reading of a 19% contraction.
(Reporting by Andr Vitor Tavares; Editing by Inti Landauro and Alex Richardson)
