Economics
U.S. Retail Sales Disappoint Again
U.S. April Retail Sales Little Changed
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American shoppers’ reluctance to open their wallets has economists stumped.
Retail sales barely budged in April, confounding projections for a small increase, figures from the Commerce Department showed Wednesday. That followed a 0.2 percent drop from January through March that marked the first quarterly decline in almost three years.