Retail sales fall in Asturias by 2.5 percent (-1.8% in Spain) and employment increased by 0.6%.

Sales of retail trade recorded a decline of 2.5 percent in the Principality of Asturias while in Spain declined 1.8 percent in real terms in May over the same month of 2009, the Institute said today National Statistics (INE).

Sales of retail trade increased only in Cantabria (1.6 percent), Madrid (0.7 percent) and Castilla y Leon (0.2 percent).

Regarding occupation, in Asturias the, sto credits, number of jobs stood at 0.6 percent, only this region with Castile and Leon in May 2009 compared with this figure were increased.

National average

Sales of retail trade recorded a decrease of 1.8 percent in real terms last May over the same month of 2009, which strung his second month in negative in March after it achieved its first growth, cheap darkfall gold, in two years, with an increase of 3.5%, according to Monday's National Statistics Institute (INE).

Removed the calendar effect, ie the difference in the number of working days a month featuring different years, the retail index at constant prices in May recording a rate of -1.9 percent.

All modes of commercial distribution showed negative annual rates in May,, darkfall gold, except the big chains that were the only ones who increased their sales in the fifth month of the year by 0.4 percent.

Employment in the retail trade sector fell again in May, registering a negative rate of 1.5% over the same month in 2009, stringing together 22 consecutive months so of decline.

return eclipse's blog to keep reading