Yeah, I thought sales, etc would be a miss. Apparently people moved online. So, I wonder what the fed will say. Surely, this is hawkish for taper now? All strong data this week, pointing towards "recovery."

No too sure. They fed has thrown in curve balls like: "average inflation of 2%"or "we are happy to let inflation run hot" or "we believe this inflation is transitory" So, as FXSport points out: inflation is 5% for the year. This is A LOT, but ...