US DATA: ICSC sales for wk Mar 6: “March came in with a roar for
retailers as spring-like weather drove consumers out of their homes and
into stores. As a result, customer traffic improved markedly for the
week based on the ICSC-Goldman Sachs weekly tracking survey and resulted
in the strongest year-over-year gain since matching its July 14, 2007
(+3.4%) performance. In addition, according to the International
Council of Shopping Centers, Inc. (ICSC) and Goldman Sachs (GS) index,
on a week-on-week basis, sales rose by a strong 2.9 percent for the week
ending March 6, which was the strongest since December 22, 2001.