India, March 6 -- Eurozone retail sales declined unexpectedly in January on non-food and auto fuel sales, official data showed on Thursday.
Retail sales registered a monthly drop of 0.3 percent, confounding expectations for an increase of 0.1 percent.
Eurostat revised up retail sales for December to nil growth from the initial estimate of 0.2 percent fall.
On a yearly basis, retail sales growth softened to 1.5 percent from revised 2.2 percent in December. Sales were expected to grow 1.9 percent.
Sales of food, drinks, tobacco rebounded 0.6 percent from the prior month. Meanwhile, non-food product sales fell 0.7 percent and automotive fuel in specialized stores dropped 0.3 percent.
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