Online sales also jumped sharply on so-called Black Friday, which is the day after Thanksgiving.
Retail sales were strong last week, and the Leading Economic Indicators (LEI) jumped sharply.
Weekly U.S. jobless claims came in at a five-year low, while U.S. housing starts jumped sharply in December.
Consumer confidence jumped sharply after the election, and is now at levels not seen since the peak of the 1987-88 consumer boom.
At 4%, the household savings rate has jumped sharply from its low of near zero, but it is still far below its post-war average of 7%.
The market internals were some of the worst I have ever seen, with the Arms Index (TRIN) closing at 4.64, while the number of new lows jumped sharply to 441 from just 86 on Monday.
New York Times Co. shares jumped sharply this morning as trading opened thanks to a report that a group of investors headed by entrepreneur Aaron Kushner is making an unsolicited bid for the Boston Globe.
Inventory jumped sharply in the quarter.
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An index tracking prices that companies pay for goods jumped up sharply in July, which means inflation is a growing threat.
For these patients, too, hospice enrollment jumped to seventy per cent, and their use of hospital services dropped sharply.
The Chamber's spending on lobbying has jumped under Mr Donohue (see chart 1), though it fell sharply last year as an unprecedented lobbying blitz on health and financial reform subsided.
Apartment construction, which tends to fluctuate sharply from month to month, led the surge: It jumped nearly 31 percent to an annual rate of 417, 000, the fastest pace since January 2006.
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