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13 Aug 2010 10:58

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Biz: In our constant effort to depress you, more depressing numbers

  • 0.4% the increase in retail sales in July (a rebound from a few crappy months, but lower than expected)
  • 0.9% the increase in year-on-year consumer prices, a key inflation indicator (that’s really low) source

14 Jan 2010 09:48

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Biz: Retail unexpectedly sucked last month; jobs sucked last week

  • -0.3% decline in retail sales in December; a growth of 0.5% was expected during the holidays
  • +11,000 increase in jobess claims last week; it wasn’t supposed to be quite that high source