Shoppers cover themselves from the rain while waiting to enter a Best Buy in San Diego in November. Fourth-quarter retail sales have looked weak.
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The Commerce Department’s breakdown of gross domestic product by industry shows broad-based growth through the third quarter of last year. But some of the strongest performers have since faltered, leaving underlying strength of the economy in question through the end of 2015.
The latest report is meant to complement the department’s widely followed gauge of economic output by types of expenditure, such as personal consumption, trade and business investment.
In the third quarter—which ended way back in Read More

Source:: wsj