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CNBC’s Shartia Brantley reports that the retail sales report in July showed an unexpected decline of 0.1 percent and was down 8.3 percent from a year ago. The last Consumer Price Index report showed no change from the previous month and home construction fell by one percent in July. The last report on the manufacturing sector showed a point five percent increase in July, the first monthly increase since December 2007.
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