Holiday retail spending up 8.7 pct: report (Reuters)

RSS News User · 27th December 2005, 02:31 PM

<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051227/bs_nm/retail_holiday_study_dc"><img src="http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/nm/20051227/2005_12_26t212547_450x295_us_retail_holiday_study. jpg?x=130&y=85&sig=vtHOO4zK20DdLXOfUJk8qA--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="People shop in the Manhattan Mall in New York on December 26, 2005. Local retailers are hoping to lure consumers back to their stores with post-Christmas discounts. (Seth Wenig/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - U.S. consumers spent 8.7 percent more
during the just ended holiday shopping period than in the
comparable period a year ago, according to a report from an
affiliate of MasterCard International, the Wall Street Journal
reported in its online edition on Monday.</p><br clear=all>

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