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        <title><![CDATA[Carlos Torres - Former Editor:Economics]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Stagnant Sales Mean U.S. Retailers May Lack Pricing Power]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2016 16:28:08 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[U.S. Companies Have Enough Confidence to Hire, If Not Invest]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2016 16:08:57 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Struggling U.S. Economy Propped Up by Consumer-Spending Gain]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2016 17:26:08 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Second-Quarter U.S. GDP Forecasts Tumble on New Advance Data]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2016 15:52:03 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Missing U.S. GDP Data Now Available With New Census Report]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2016 12:46:26 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Consumers Share the Wealth as U.S. Demand Broadens Beyond Autos]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2016 16:25:52 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Wild Gyrations Mask a U.S. Job Market That’s Solid, Yet Cooling]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2016 15:25:03 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Americans Seeing Personal Benefits of Brexit as Costs Hidden]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2016 15:03:29 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Putting a U.S. Home on the Market in the Spring Pays Off: Chart]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2016 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Consumers Would Put Fed Hike on Map If Not for Jobs Data]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2016 15:35:24 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Payrolls Signal Gradual U.S. Slowdown, Not Abrupt Slump]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2016 15:56:30 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Smaller Trade Gap a Mixed Blessing as Demand Weakens Everywhere]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2016 14:51:35 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[U.S. Trade Deficit in Goods Plunged to One-Year Low in March]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2016 12:47:47 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Slump in Housing Starts Leaves U.S. Looking for Growth Drivers]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2016 14:58:57 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Consumer Prices Bear Out Yellen's Subdued Inflation Outlook]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2016 15:25:40 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Everything's Looking Up for Consumers, So Why Aren't They Spending?]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2016 16:29:48 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Under the Hood of U.S. Wholesalers Is Huge Q1 Inventory Drag]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2016 14:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Jobs Report Gives Yellen Only Half of What Fed Chair Wants]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2016 16:03:54 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[U.S. Economy May Be Strong Enough to Forge Much-Needed Inflation]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2016 15:19:48 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sluggish Retail Sales Cast Pall on U.S. Consumer Spending]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2016 15:44:05 GMT</pubDate>
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