Morning Bid: Retail softens as jobs loom

By Mike Dolan 11 Feb - What matters in U.S. and global markets today By Mike Dolan, Editor-At-Large, Finance and Markets Just as everyone was waiting nervously for the January payrolls report due later today, retail sales came in with a miss that scared the horses. The surprisingly flat retail readout from ‌December sowed doubts about Main Street and consumption generally as traders braced for an employment report the White House has warned us not to “panic” about. I’ll ‌get into that and more below ...