December retail sales were flat, missing expectations

Retail sales. These are December numbers. Headline expected up 4/10 comes in light.Only zero goose egg unchanged. That would equal uh where we were. Well, actually to find a lower number, you're going all the way back to May of last year when it was down 8/10.That's the last negative number we had. So, that's unchanged. If you strip out autos, it remains unchanged. And if you strip out autos and gas, it also remains unchanged.The control group or the core retail sales comes in at down onetenth of a percent. ...