ITALY DATA: Retail sales rose 0.2% m/m in December in SA nominal terms,
and gained an unadjusted 0.4% y/y, down from +0.8% y/y in November.
–Food sales rose 0.3 m/m; non-food sales gained 0.1% m/m.
–Shops were open for an average of 27.5 days in December, 0.4 days more
than in Dec 2009. Italy’s Dec HICP consumer price index rose 0.4% m/m.
–Italy 2010 full-year average unadj. retail sales +0.2% (-1.7% in 2009)