Ben Bernanke QE3 bounce?
Consumer confidence surged from 61.3 last month to 70.3 this month.
1.Back to school products
2.Building supplies for storm damage
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There are also the stories about major planned hiring in advance of the holidays (so mainly temp/seasonal jobs) such as the one this morning about Toys R Us starting to hire 50,000 workers.
The story on TRU also played up how last year 15k temps were converted to perm employees. The Sept jobs numbers are going to play a huge role in the election... We’ll see what happens.