Wholesale trade sales up 0.4% y/y in June 2015

Wholesale trade sales, when measured in real terms (constant 2012 prices), increased by 0.4% year on year in June 2015, data from Stats SA showed on Thursday...

Seasonally adjusted wholesale trade sales decreased by 0.5% in June 2015 compared with May 2015. This followed a month-on-month increase of 3.4% in May 2015 and a 6% decline in April 2015.

Seasonally adjusted wholesale trade sales decreased by 1.6% in the second quarter of 2015 compared with the previous quarter.

Measured in nominal terms (current prices), wholesale trade sales increased by 3.5% in June 2015 compared with June 2014. Wholesale trade sales increased by 0.6% in the second quarter of 2015 compared with the second quarter of 2014.