Q1 E-Commerce Retail Sales: +2.7% from Q4 to $61.2B. Total retail sales estimated to be +1.1% to $1,118.9B. E-commerce sales +15.2%. E-commerce sales accounted for 5.5% of all sales in the quarter. Post your comment! More on Retail Sales : Two months into the year and retail categories look reasonably strong compared to estimates with the exception of electronics ( BBY , RSH , CONN ) and department stores ( JWN , M , DDS , SHLD , KSS ) which are running below last year's pace of sales. Improved results in the ... (Adds market, analyst reaction) * Retail sales surge 1.3 pct in Feb, vs forecasts of +0.3 pct * Home building approvals also beat estimates with a rise of 3.1 pct * Lifts A$ as market lengthens odds on another rate cut By Wayne Cole SYDNEY, April 4 (Reuters) - Australian retail sales surged 1.3 ... * Retail sales jump 1.3 pct in Feb, vs forecasts of just +0.3 pct * Home building approvals also beat estimates with a rise of 3.1 pct * Lifts A$ as market sees less chance of another rate cut (Adds auto sales, reaction) By Wayne Cole SYDNEY, April 4 (Reuters) - Australian retail sales surged by ... More on the ICSC Retail Sales report : The big jump in retail sales is largely due to a calendar effect due to the timing of Easter. The agency cuts its forecast for March sales to a 2.5%-3.5% range from a prior forecast of 3.5%-4.0% due to cold weather that kept consumers at home. Post your ... * Retail sales rise 1.1 percent in February * Gasoline, autos and building materials buoy sales * Core retail sales rise 0.4 percent, prior month revised up * Business inventories post largest gain in over 1-1/2 years * Reports bode well for first-quarter economic growth By Lucia Mutikani ... There's no respite for Greece as retail sales fell 16.4% Y/Y in January, double the pace from the previous month. The grand total for retail sales contraction in Greece over the last four years: 34%.   31 comments! Treasury prices tumble following the strong retail sales print, with the long bond falling half of a full point. It's the biggest beat on retail sales since December 2009, writes Bespoke. TLT -0.2% , TBT +0.3% premarket. Post your comment! * Retail sales edge up 0.1 percent in January * Core retail sales also gain 0.1 percent * Report suggests slowdown in pace of consumer spending By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON, Feb 13 (Reuters) - U.S. retail sales barely rose in January as tax increases and higher gasoline prices restrained spending, ... China's retail sales shot up 14.9% in October, providing companies selling in the region a reason to breath just a tad bit easier. The China Generak Chamber of Commerce estimates retail sales will surpass 20 trillion yuan ($3.21T) in 2012 and add another 15% to that mark by 2015. But the trick for ...