Skip to content
Switzerland announcement

Switzerland Retail Sales 2025-10-01 08:30 Europe/Zurich: data, chart, and analysis

Switzerland Retail Sales came in at -0.04 on Oct 1, 2025, compared with 1 previously. See the full release history, chart, Swiss National Bank context, and API access for this series.

Back to Retail Sales API reference
Actual
-0.04
Previous
1
Forecast
--
Reference period
2025-08-31

Last updated:

Release alerts

Get CHF Retail Sales alerts

Enter your account email. We will notify you when the next official-source CHF Retail Sales release is published.

Free account required. Unsubscribe anytime.

Switzerland Retail Sales release chart

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

Switzerland Retail Sales chart through 2025-08-31
CHF Retail Sales readings through 2025-08-31. Latest: -0.04.

Retail Sales release read

Switzerland Retail Sales came in at -0.04 on Oct 1, 2025, compared with 1 previously. See the full release history, chart, Swiss National Bank context, and API access for this series.

The parent Retail Sales page shows the full time series for Switzerland. This release page keeps the realised value, prior value, forecast, reference period, and publication time together for the individual announcement.

For CHF 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 chf_retail_sales_2025-10-01
API announcement ID chf_retail_sales_2025-08-31
Release time
2025-10-01 06:30 UTC
Reference period date 2025-08-31
Actual value -0.04
Previous value 1
Forecast --
Surprise --
Announcement timestamp 1759300200

API data for this announcement

The API endpoint returns the full Switzerland 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.

More Switzerland Retail Sales releases

Move through adjacent announcement records for the same series.

Newer release

2025-10-31 08:30 Europe/Zurich · 2.24

Older release

2025-09-01 08:30 Europe/Zurich · 1

Related Switzerland indicators

Continue from this release into adjacent macro series for the same country.

Business Confidence

Survey-based measure of business executives' outlook on economic conditions, production, and investment plans.

Consumer Confidence

Survey-based measure of consumers' confidence in economic conditions, employment prospects, and personal finances.

Core Inflation

CPI excluding volatile items like food and energy.

Current Account Balance

Measures trade in goods and services and income flows.

Exports of Goods & Services

Total exports reported by ABS (AUD millions), quarterly based on national accounts.

Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

Gross domestic product: the total value of goods and services produced in the economy, its broadest measure of activity. Depending on the country, the headline series is published as a level or as a growth rate; the unit shown with each series says which.

Common questions about this release

The value, its publication time, the next scheduled date, and the official publisher for Switzerland Retail Sales.

What did Switzerland Retail Sales come in at, and how did it compare with the forecast and the previous reading?

Switzerland Retail Sales was -0.04% year on year in August 2025. The previous reading was 1%.

When was this Switzerland Retail Sales release published?

This release was published on Oct 1, 2025 at 08:30 Europe/Zurich.

When is the next Switzerland Retail Sales release?

The next Switzerland Retail Sales release is scheduled for Nov 2, 2026 at 08:30 Europe/Zurich.

What is the official source for Switzerland Retail Sales?

FSO publishes the official Retail Sales series. FXMacroData stores every release with its announcement timestamp and serves it from the announcements endpoint for this series.

Raw announcement payload

Field names are preserved for traceability and downstream testing.

{
  "announcement_datetime": 1759300200,
  "announcement_id": "chf_retail_sales_2025-08-31",
  "announcement_source_url": "https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/en/home/news/whats-new.gnpdetail.2025-0603.html",
  "capture_time_basis": "fetch_completed",
  "collected_at_iso": "2026-10-03T04:44:42.122194Z",
  "collected_at_ns": 1791002682122194217,
  "date": "2025-08-31",
  "observed_at_ns": 1791002682122194217,
  "previous_value": 1.0,
  "publication_time_precision": "minute",
  "publication_time_status": "confirmed",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "epoch": 1756623600,
      "val": 96.93
    },
    {
      "epoch": 1779369687,
      "val": 96.91
    },
    {
      "epoch": 1779375606,
      "val": 96.91
    },
    {
      "epoch": 1779375645,
      "val": 96.91
    },
    {
      "epoch": 1779424254,
      "val": 96.91
    },
    {
      "epoch": 1779510711,
      "val": 96.91
    },
    {
      "epoch": 1779597115,
      "val": 96.91
    },
    {
      "epoch": 1779666779,
      "val": 96.91
    },
    {
      "epoch": 1779682614,
      "val": 96.91
    },
    {
      "epoch": 1779683495,
      "val": 96.91
    },
    {
      "epoch": 1779769855,
      "val": 96.91
    },
    {
      "epoch": 1779856292,
      "val": 96.91
    },
    {
      "epoch": 1779924055,
      "val": 96.91
    },
    {
      "epoch": 1779942671,
      "val": 96.91
    },
    {
      "epoch": 1780029055,
      "val": 96.91
    },
    {
      "epoch": 1780061602,
      "val": 96.91
    },
    {
      "epoch": 1780115455,
      "val": 96.91
    },
    {
      "epoch": 1780201855,
      "val": 96.91
    },
    {
      "epoch": 1780288271,
      "val": 96.91
    },
    {
      "epoch": 1780374659,
      "val": 96.91
    },
    {
      "epoch": 1780461082,
      "val": 96.91
    },
    {
      "epoch": 1780547467,
      "val": 96.91
    },
    {
      "epoch": 1780633903,
      "val": 96.91
    },
    {
      "epoch": 1780720281,
      "val": 96.91
    },
    {
      "epoch": 1780806675,
      "val": 96.91
    },
    {
      "epoch": 1780893074,
      "val": 96.91
    },
    {
      "epoch": 1788317602,
      "val": -0.05
    },
    {
      "announcement_source_url": "https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/en/home/news/whats-new.gnpdetail.2025-0603.html",
      "capture_time_basis": "fetch_completed",
      "epoch": 1759300200,
      "is_first_release": false,
      "observed_at_ns": 1791002682122194217,
      "publication_time_precision": "minute",
      "publication_time_status": "confirmed",
      "val": -0.04,
      "vintage_status": "captured_snapshot"
    }
  ],
  "val": -0.04,
  "vintage_status": "captured_snapshot"
}