Advance Monthly Sales for Retail and Food Services
Advance Monthly Sales for Retail and Food Services for December 2026 is scheduled for release at 08:30 EST on 15 January 2027.
What it measures
Sales at retail and food-services businesses. Consumer spending is roughly two thirds of U.S. GDP, so this is the earliest monthly read on the largest part of the economy.
Times shown in America/New York · Schedule source: Census release schedule · Licence: public domain (a work of the U.S. federal government)
History
This series is moving to its original source (U.S. Census Bureau); it returns when it is read from there.
Impact on the Treasury curve
Low 0.67 bp from the 10-year level
On this indicator’s past release days the Treasury curve moved that much more than it did on a quiet day — a day on which none of the tracked indicators released — across 43 clean release days , with 17 excluded because another tracked release landed the same day. It is a backward-looking measure of what already happened. It is not a forecast of the next release, and it is not advice. Read the full methodology.
Upcoming releases
| Date | Time (America/New York) | Reference period | Calendar |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08:30 EST | December 2026 | .ics | |
| 08:30 EST | January 2027 | .ics | |
| 08:30 EDT | February 2027 | .ics | |
| 08:30 EDT | March 2027 | .ics | |
| 08:30 EDT | April 2027 | .ics | |
| 08:30 EDT | May 2027 | .ics |
Past releases
The dates the agency actually published on, newest first. These are release days, not the reference periods the figures describe.
No consensus, and why
No consensus shown — we don’t license survey estimates. The “expected” figure on a commercial calendar is a survey of economists sold by a data vendor. It is not a government work, there is no public-domain source for it, and we would rather say so than print an empty column. There are no prediction-market odds here either, for the same licensing reason.
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