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Data Round-Up: Real Consumption Likely Rose +3.5% in 18Q3

posted by Michael Lewis on October 15, 2018

Found in US, categorized in Macro

Tags: retail food services retail sales

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Hurricane Florence roiled the September results, particularly food services (Michael may well have a similar effect on October results). Nonetheless, “core” retail sales posted a solid +0.5% gain in September and nearly +5% annualized for the quarter.

Abstract

FMI’s analyses of this morning’s September Retail Sales and August Business Inventories reports, plus notes on this morning’s the October NY Fed Empire regional manufacturing index. 

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Michael Lewis

Mike Lewis founded Free Market Inc. (FMI) in 1982 as a full-service economic consulting firm, providing insights and in-depth data analysis primarily for institutional money managers and corporate planning directors.

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