Commerce reports sales increase of 0.9 percent

Friday, December 12, 2003

WASHINGTON -- Holiday shoppers catapulted sales at the nation's retailers higher in November. The Commerce Department reported Thursday that merchants' sales rose 0.9 percent last month, ending two straight months of belt tightening, which caused retail sales to drop by 0.3 percent in September and be flat in October.

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