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To: SeaViewer who wrote (49988)	3/5/1999 4:55:00 PM
From: RealMuLan	Respond to of 132070

Here is some update about consumer credit from Yahoo: Friday March 5, 4:34 pm Eastern Time (Note: this article is ''in progress''; there will likely be an update soon.) U.S. consumer credit buying shot up in January WASHINGTON, March 5 (Reuters) - U.S. consumers went on a credit-buying spree in January, a Federal Reserve report on Friday showed as installment purchases shot up by $14.7 billion. It was the strongest increase in credit-buying in more than three years, since a $16.3-billion jump in September 1995 and was nearly five times the revised $3.1-billion increase posted in December. biz.yahoo.com