{"id":199211,"date":"2025-06-20T06:57:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T06:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/199211\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T06:57:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T06:57:13","slug":"european-markets-on-fri-june-20-stoxx-600-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/199211\/","title":{"rendered":"European markets on Fri June 20: Stoxx 600, Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK retail sales fell sharply in May<\/p>\n<p>U.K. shoppers pulled back on spending in May, with retail sales down 2.7% on the month, the steepest drop since December 2023, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/businessindustryandtrade\/retailindustry\/bulletins\/retailsales\/may2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to<\/a> Office for National Statistics. Economists polled by Reuters expected a 0.5% decline.<\/p>\n<p>It breaks a run of four straight monthly rises, which was the best streak since 2020, with retailers saying sunny weather in April helped to lift sales growth to 1.3%.<\/p>\n<p>Shoppers cross Oxford Circus in Westminster, on 12th June 2025, in London, England.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Baker | In Pictures | Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Here are the opening calls<\/p>\n<p>City of London skyline with 20 Fenchurch Street, affectionately nicknamed the Walkie Talkie, in London, United Kingdom. <\/p>\n<p>Mike Kemp | In Pictures | Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Spot gold set to post weekly declineStock Chart IconStock chart icon<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static-redesign.cnbcfm.com\/dist\/a54b41835a8b60db28c2.svg\" class=\"Collapsible-dismissButton\" alt=\"hide content\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Spot gold<\/p>\n<p>The bullion \u2014 which is considered a hedge against political and financial instability \u2014 has risen 31.2% since the start of the year, according to LSEG data.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Amala Balakrishner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UK retail sales fell sharply in May U.K. shoppers pulled back on spending in May, with retail sales&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3091],"tags":[5189,51,3085,2441,5191,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-199211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-markets","8":"tag-breaking-news-europe","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-business-news","11":"tag-markets","12":"tag-stoxx-600","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114714394257949144","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}