<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071114/bs_afp/useconomyretailsales"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20071114/capt.sge.uqr85.141107171435.photo00.photo.default-512x322.jpg?x=130&y=81&sig=whTWh8IuL705n49HpPDxHw--" align="left" height="81" width="130" alt="Shoppers in New York City. US retail sales, a vital piston of economic growth, showed a lackluster gain of 0.2 percent in October as American consumers checked their spending, a government report showed Wednesday.(AFP/Getty Images/File)" border="0" /></a>AFP - US retail sales, a vital piston of economic growth, showed a lackluster gain of 0.2 percent in October as American consumers checked their spending, a government report showed Wednesday.</p><br clear="all"/>

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(AFP)