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To: William H Huebl who wrote (43478)	9/15/1999 8:03:00 AM
From: Skeet Shipman	Read Replies (1) of 94695

Before yesterday's retail sales are forgotten, here are the percent changes. You will notice the season adjustments increased the percentages. The year over year figures reflect how slow it was last year. Autos, furniture and gasoline appear to be the excess over estimates. Consumer postponed buying autos last year. Furniture reflect home sales Gasoline -the oil increase. Percent Changes Retail Trade Aug. July 1999 1999 adv. prel. from-- from-- SIC Kind of business July Aug. June July CODE 1999 1998 1999 1998 Prel. Final Final Final Retail trade, total........... +0.5 +10.5 +1.0 +9.5 Seasonally Adjusted........... +1.2 +10.6 +1.0 +9.4 Total (excl. auto group).. +0.3 +7.3 +1.8 +7.7 Seasonally Adj. .. +0.7 +7.8 +0.4 +7.3 Durable goods, total........ +0.8 +15.3 -1.2 +11.6 Seasonally Adj. +1.8 +14.1 +1.7 +12.0 Nondurable goods, total..... +0.3 +7.2 +2.7 +8.0 Seasonally Adj...... +0.7 +8.1 +0.5 +7.6 It will be interesting to compare this to the CPI. census.gov (Forgot the html commands to have this line up.)

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