Washington–U.S. retail sales rose a seasonally adjusted 0.9% to $406.7 billion in August as spending rose sharply on autos and gasoline, the U.S. Commerce Department reported Friday. Excluding autos, which can have an outsized impact on the report, retail sales climbed 0.8% which was in line with economists’ average forecast for a 0.8% increase minus […]
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