US retail sales rose +0.2% in August, and core sales rose +0.1%. Expectations stood on +0.3% and +0.2%. However, revisions were positive: July was revised up from +0.6% to +0.7% and the core number was updated to +0.6% from +0.4% originally reported. Another subset of items resulted in a small beat: 0.4% instead of +0.3% expected. This control group also contributes to a better impression than the headline figures.
So, revisions certainly beat the small miss on the headline numbers. However the New York Fed Manufacturing Index hit -14.67 points instead of a predicted rise.
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