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US Consumer Sentiment Falters: Retail Sales Plunge After Pre-Tariff Spending Spree

US Consumer Sentiment Falters: Retail Sales Plunge After Pre-Tariff Spending Spree

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June 18th, 2025

US Consumer Sentiment Falters: Retail Sales Plunge After Pre-Tariff Spending Spree

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🇮🇹 Italiano

Secondo quanto reso noto dal Dipartimento del Commercio, il settore retail statunitense ha subito una contrazione, con un decremento dello 0,9% a maggio, accentuando la flessione già registrata ad aprile, attestatasi allo 0,1%.

L'ammontare in questione è ascrivibile a un decremento cospicuo nelle vendite automobilistiche, conseguente all'incremento vertiginoso di marzo, allorquando i consumatori, in una strategia di elusione, tentarono di sottrarsi all'applicazione del dazio del 25%, sanzionato dal Presidente Trump, su autoveicoli d'importazione e componentistica afferente.

Malgrado la contrazione della fiducia dei consumatori, la tenuta inflattiva e la persistente esiguità del tasso di disoccupazione potrebbero propiziare una spesa di consumo che, pur non eccelsa, si manterrà su livelli accettabili nel prossimo futuro; in particolare, la crescita dello 0,4% registrata il mese scorso nelle vendite al dettaglio, depurate dalle componenti volatili quali carburanti, autoveicoli e ristorazione, avvalora l'ipotesi di una resilienza della domanda per beni voluttuari, seppur circoscritta a determinate categorie merceologiche.

In a landscape characterized by widespread retrenchment across diverse sectors, online retailers, purveyors of sartorial goods, and emporia of furnishings have conspicuously bucked the trend, registering a marked uptick in sales, a phenomenon juxtaposed against the backdrop of a broader decline in retail activity, plausibly attributable to anxieties surrounding inflationary pressures stemming from the imposition of Trump-era tariffs.

June 18th, 2025

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