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Welcome to World News. Tonight, street slide. Stocks plunge over uncertainty about the recovery. And consumer spending drops by the largest amount in nine months. Source of shame. Brian Ross exposes evidence of under aged children working in the nation’s fruit fields and some major retailers immediately react. Women at war. On the frontlines, the roles of men and women in combat are blurring무감각하게 하다 흐리게하다. Stormy weather. Drenching억수로 쏟아지는 rains and high winds cause damage and misery in the southern US. From ABC News headquarters, this is World News with Charles Gibson.
Good evening. One day up, next day down. It’s sort of a trend on Wall Street. No good day goes unpunished. Yesterday, stocks rose nearly 200 points on news the economy had grown for the first time in more than a year. And then today, the Dow Industrials gave back yesterday’s gains, and then some falling 250 points after a report that consumer spending had fallen by half a percent in September, the largest drop in nine months. As we say one day confidence, the next day doubt. So Betsy Stark joins us again tonight. Betsy?
Charlie? The volatility변덕 in this stock market up 200 yesterday, down 250 today reflects the push and pull in the broader economy right now. Something are getting better, others are getting worse. And there’s an awful lot of nervousness about which way the consumer will go as we head into the holidays.
The optimism that investors felt yesterday that the recession is finally over gave way today to caution.
The new numbers on consumer spending are a clear sign that Americans are hard pressed to spend without a big government incentive. Retailers who understand what they’re up against have laid on선반에 얹히다 the holiday charm earlier than usual. “You’re getting ready for a Christmas season, ma’am?” A day before Halloween at Sears stores nationwide, they were setting the stage for the kind of door buster sale normally reserved for the day after thanksgiving.
Retailers are trying to outdo능가하다 each other in an early battle for the holiday dollar. Kmart has a “Christmas Club” card that offers shoppers 3% interest on money they set aside to buy gifts at Kmart.
BESTBUY let shoppers set up a wish list, so others can make cash contributions toward a big ticket item. And TOYS “R” US is opening nearly 350 mini stores to make it easier to shop with them. They’ll all close in January. “How fierce is the competition this year for the limited dollars that are out there?”
“We have less money being spent on holiday than last year. So, retailers are trying to be the first ones in with the good deals to become the Christmas headquarters get the early start and try to maintain the momentum”