US Retail Sales Post Best Month Since July

Broad-based gains were driven by rebounding auto sales and robust holiday shopping. A key retail sales measure for GDP calculations also rose in November.Sales at a mall in Columbia, Md., on Nov. 24, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times1/14/2026|Updated: 1/14/2026U.S. consumers opened their wallets at the start of the holiday shopping season as retail sales posted their best month since July.November retail sales rose 0.6 percent, from a downwardly adjusted 0.1 percent decline in the previous month, according to the Department of Commerce’s Census Bureau on Jan. 14.Andrew Moran has been writing about business, economics, and finance for more than a decade. He is the author of “The War on Cash.”Author’s Selected Articles