by Calculated Risk on 1/12/2007 09:21:00 AM

The Census Bureau reports:

The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for December, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes, were $369.9 billion, an increase of 0.9 percent from the previous month and up 5.4 percent from December 2005.

After a weak start in Q4, it looks like retail sales finished reasonably strong.