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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (516262)	12/27/2003 9:06:21 AM
From: goldworldnet	Respond to of 769670

Keep peddling the doom and gloom. * * *

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (516262)	12/27/2003 11:09:34 AM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 769670

Stupid post. Perhaps the reading should be done by those most in need of education. Retail trade sales were up 1.0 percent (±1.0%) from October and were 6.6 percent (±1.0%) above last year. Electronics and appliance stores were up 15.0 percent (±1.8%) from November 2002 and sales of building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers were up 11.0 percent (±2.1%) from last year. census.gov But it was at least an improvement from last year's holiday season, which was called the most disappointing in a decade. Estimates of the overall gain this year ranged from 3.5 percent to 5.7 percent yesterday, with experts still holding fast to their projections of a month ago. Instead of "disastrous" and "dismal," the words used to describe last year's holiday season, analysts and retailers used words like "normal" and "solid" this year nytimes.com High-End and Post-Christmas Sales Look Good professionaljeweler.com