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To: Poet who wrote (32872)	5/11/2000 9:02:00 AM
From: Junkyardawg	Respond to of 63513

Thursday May 11 8:39 AM ET Retail Sales Fall in April WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. retail sales fell 0.2 percent in April, the first such decline in almost two years, the Commerce Department said on Thursday in a report suggesting recent interest rate rises may have started to cool the economy. Retail sales fell 0.2 percent to a seasonally-adjusted $266 billion after an upwardly revised 0.5 percent gain in March. That was the first decline since a 0.1 percent contraction in August of 1998. Economists polled by Reuters had expected a gain of 0.4 percent in April.