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Retail sales for July rose 1.2% vs. 2.3% estimate
Consumers spent less than expected in July as a boom in retail sales the month before cooled while efforts to reopen the economy stalled. Retail sales rose 1.2% for the month, against the expected increase of 2.3% from economists surveyed by Dow Jones. The news wasn’t all a letdown, however: Excluding autos, the gain was 1.9%, ahead of the 1.2% estimate. Considered a bellwether for an economy that gets two-thirds of its activity from consumers, retail sales saw an 8.4% surge in June that included huge gains in furniture and appliance sales. However, those gains largely reversed themsleves as a resurgence in ... (full story)
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