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Spain September retail sales rise 1.1 percent year on year - INE

MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish retail sales rose 1.1 percent year-on-year on a calendar-adjusted basis in September, the biggest increase since November last year, according to data from the National Statistics Institute(INE) on Wednesday.

That follows a revised 0.3 percent increase in retail sales in August. Retail sales have shown signs of picking up in 2014 after a three-year period when they mostly fell.

(Reporting by Julien Toyer; Editing by Sarah white)