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Consumer spending in October cools while inflation is picking up

Published Thu, Nov 30, 2017 · 09:50 PM

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US consumer spending settled back in October to a still-decent pace after the biggest increase since 2009, as a post-storm surge in auto sales cooled. Incomes remained robust and inflation showed progress toward the Federal Reserve's goal.

Purchases rose 0.3 per cent, matching the median projection in a Bloomberg survey of economists, after a revised 0.9 per cent advance in September, Commerce Department figures showed on Thursday in Washington. Incomes grew 0.4 per cent for a second month, ma…

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