Retail turnover goes up 5.7pct, Jan.-Aug. 2018

Romania's turnover of retail trade (except for the trade in vehicles and motorcycles) increased in the first eight months both as gross series by 5.7 percent and as adjusted for working days and seasonality by 6.4 percent, compared to the similar period of 2017, according to the data published on Wednesday by the National Institute of Statistics. 

In August 2018, the volume of retail turnover except motor vehicles and motorcycles went up compared the previous month as gross series by 3.3 percent and it dropped by 0.1 percent, as series adjusted for working days and seasonality. 

Compared to the corresponding month of 2017, the turnover volume for retail (except for the trade in vehicles and motorcycles) increased both as gross series and as adjusted, depending on the number of working days and seasonality by 1.5 percent and 1.7 percent, respectively.