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UK retail sales rose 0.4% month-on-month in March, well above the expected 0.4% decline, and core sales rose 0.5%. GBP/USD traded about 0.4% lower near 1.3280 after the release.
Stronger UK consumer demand supports the domestic economy and the pound but has no direct effect on feed commodity supply or prices. The release is a routine economic data point.
Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.