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Canada Retail Sales 2024-07-19 04:30 America/Toronto: data, chart, and analysis

The 2020-01-31 Retail Sales release printed 54,695.00. The previous reading was 55,350.00, while the forecast field is --. Traders usually read this release against the recent trend, the Bank of Canada policy bias, and the surprise versus consensus.

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Actual
54,695.00
Previous
55,350.00
Forecast
--
Public release ID
cad_retail_sales_2024-07-19

Canada Retail Sales release chart

Market context, recent readings, and scenario notes for this announcement.

Canada Retail Sales chart through 2020-01-31
CAD Retail Sales readings through 2020-01-31. Latest: 54,695.00.

Retail Sales release read

The 2020-01-31 Retail Sales release printed 54,695.00. The previous reading was 55,350.00, while the forecast field is --. Traders usually read this release against the recent trend, the Bank of Canada policy bias, and the surprise versus consensus.

The parent Retail Sales page shows the full time series for Canada. This page narrows the record to the individual release, keeping the realised value, prior value, forecast field, announcement-date URL, and source payload together at one canonical URL.

For CAD event-risk work, the important read is whether this print changes the recent trend or simply extends it. Compare the actual value with the previous and forecast fields above, then use the raw JSON below for backtests keyed to the stable announcement ID.

Release data snapshot

The values below are the citation fields for this announcement.

Public release ID cad_retail_sales_2024-07-19
API announcement ID cad_retail_sales_2020-01-31
Release time
2024-07-19 08:30 UTC
Reference period date 2020-01-31
Actual value 54,695.00
Previous value 55,350.00
Forecast --
Surprise --
Announcement timestamp 1721377800

API data for this announcement

The API endpoint returns the full Canada Retail Sales history. Clients can filter by date or match this row by announcement_id.

Forecasts live in the predictions endpoint and use the same announcement identifier where available. That is the preferred join key for realised values, forecast surprises, and release-event backtests.

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Newer release

2024-07-19 04:30 America/Toronto · 54,880.00

Older release

2023-07-21 04:30 America/Toronto · 55,350.00

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Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Growth

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Raw announcement payload

Field names are preserved for traceability and downstream testing.

{
  "announcement_datetime": 1721377800,
  "announcement_datetime_local": "2024-07-19T04:30:00-04:00",
  "announcement_id": "cad_retail_sales_2020-01-31",
  "date": "2020-01-31",
  "pct_change_mom": -1.18,
  "pct_change_yoy": 3.38,
  "previous_value": 55350.0,
  "revisions": [
    {
      "epoch": 1580475600,
      "val": 51930547.0
    },
    {
      "epoch": 1580477400,
      "val": 51930547.0
    },
    {
      "epoch": 1721377800,
      "val": 54695.0
    }
  ],
  "val": 54695.0
}