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e-Commerce, Total Spending, Rise Again

By Michael Lear-Olimpi
May 27, 2011

Economic data often seems like the weather ' fickle and hard to predict, or rely on.

But raw revenue data doesn't lie, and according to U.S. Census Bureau, overall preliminary estimated retail spending and e-commerce sales in the first quarter of this year reached record highs, with the data adjusted for seasonal variation, trading-day differences and moving holidays, but not price changes.

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