U.S. September retail sales rebound

13 October 2017

 

U.S. household spending has rebounded as consumers made up for reduced spending in August when Hurricanes Harvey and Irma swept through the south-east of the United States. According to the latest advance U.S. retail sales numbers released by the U.S. Census Bureau, retail sales increased by 1.6% during September, just shy of the 1.7% expected increase but well up on July’s revised figure of -0.1%. On a yearly basis, the...

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