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The numbers: Sales at U.S. retailers jumped a bigger-than-expected 0.7% in September in a sign households have enough buying power to keep the economy expanding.
Key details: Auto dealers posted a 1% gain in sales and helped to inflate the headline number. Auto sales account for about 20% of all retail sales. Consumer spending has stayed fairly healthy because of rising wages and the lowest unemployment rate in decades. What’s more, incomes are finally increasing faster than inflation for the first time in a few years.
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