U.S. retail sales rise more than expected

Bono71

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Thu Jan-13-05 09:30 AM
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U.S. retail sales rise more than expected

The rollercoaster continues...looks like the report is a mixed bag as the increase was influenced by heavy automobile sales.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=568&ncid=749&e=1&u=/nm/20050113/bs_nm/economy_retail_dc

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durablend

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Thu Jan-13-05 09:34 AM
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1. Let's see the personal debt figures...

Cause most of that sho'as hell wasn't paid for in cash.

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Mist

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Thu Jan-13-05 09:38 AM
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2. I keep seeing people who seem of modest means

with brand new SUV's--the personal debt load must be outrageous by now.

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warrens

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Thu Jan-13-05 09:38 AM
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3. Big woop

Let's see PROFIT figures. A lot of retailers were selling at 40 percent off most of the month. As usual, the right wing trying to find SOME good news to keep our attention off deficits, Social Security scams, Iraq and all the rest of the scandals.

Did you hear they finally admitted that Iraq never had WMD? No, but how bout them retail sales?

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xchrom

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Thu Jan-13-05 11:22 AM
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4. indeed

plus -- it seems an awful lot like shilling for wall street to the small investor right now.
with little that should really give the small investor confidence.

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Bono71

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Thu Jan-13-05 11:23 AM
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5. I could be wrong, but I don't think that wall street gives

a damn about the "small investor." Aren't they concerned more about the large institutional types?

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Massachusetts

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Thu Jan-13-05 11:47 AM
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6. Figures don't Lie, Liars figure.

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