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    Dec 13, 2011

    Marketplace Index for Tuesday, December 13, 2011

    For all the breathless coverage of Black Friday sales this year, the official retail sales data for November came out today and it was, in a word, ‘blah.’ Retail sales rose just 0.2 percent. Some of the sharpest minds on the subject were predicting the rise would be three times that amount.

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    For all the breathless coverage of Black Friday sales this year, the official retail sales data for November came out today and it was, in a word, ‘blah.’ Retail sales rose just 0.2 percent. Some of the sharpest minds on the subject were predicting the rise would be three times that amount.