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Monday, an estimated 147 million shoppers who will opened their waumts putting smiles on the faces of ceos across the country who are hoping this holiday season's optimistic forecast comes true. the national retail federation is predicting a 4.1% gain in sales this year over 2011. amounting to about $586 billion that could be good news for our economy overall. consumer spending accounts for 70% of the total u.s. economic output. retail puts 1. -- some call it a daily barometer for the nation's economy. if consumers are happy, they often are spending. october is consumer confidence index came i...

Doing and check in on these every month to figure out what direction we had this gdp the last hour and consumer sentiment numbers, down slightly in april from march but still beat analysts expectations and that is what you want to see. a good indicator for future consumer spending. 72.2, the level of consumer sentiment and we have seen it higher, but it is a decent number and better than they thought. good. bill: and, stocks are selling off. and the fate of a man accused of hacking into sarah palin's e-mail, hanging in balance. verdicts have been reached on three of four charges but the jury i...