Sweden's retail sales expanded for the third straight month in August, figures from Statistics Sweden showed on Tuesday.
Retail sales rose a seasonally and working-day adjusted 0.9 percent month-on-month in August, following a 0.4 percent increase in July.
Sales of durables grew 1.9 percent over the month, while those of consumables, excluding sales at the state-owned chain of liquor stores, remained unchanged.
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