Stocks Fall in Morning Trading, With Bad News
Stocks opened lower this morning. The bad news included the data that U.S. retail sales have fallen 1.2% in September, "the most in three years," according to Bloomberg News. It marks three consecutive months of declines (a first since 1992) and an economist at Global Insight Inc. sums it up, "The fourth quarter is guaranteed to be terrible."
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