december traffic is up 2.7% y-o-y , not real hot growth, but yes things are growing ok. this is close to the 2.4% growth estimated by the atlanta fed.
for the aussies they have a 7% drop in traffic. (ag is down big, metallic ores up big, everything else down slightly).
europe is in recession. traffic is down 1.4% . every category is down in europe. (at least for december).
Thanks bear! They aren't too happy about that in France!
all those people in france want lots of handouts, but they don't want to pay for it...
this is going to get a lot worse in the future. wait until the next big global downturn, when the british NHS is going broke, and service gets worse, and no one wants to pay more in taxes for healthcare.
by my projections, half of Europe will be bankrupt by 2070... maybe sooner.