• vs 31 prev
  • the survey show sales growth in 3months to Oct is the fastest since Feb 2011

The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) Distributive Trades Survey (DTS) measures the health of the retail sector. The reading is compiled from a survey of about 150 retail and wholesale companies. It includes measures of sales activity across the distributive trades.The figure is the difference between the percentage of retailers reporting an increase in sales and those reporting a decrease.

Having said all that the data is not a prime mover

GBPUSD a tad higher at 1.6108 though

UK distributive trades survey mm

UK distributive trades survey mm