Auto sales plunge, retail sales down

Wall Street may be dancing in the streets, economists may say the recession is over or about over, but the average Joe and Joesetta don't see that. Main Street is hurting and this is real.

Retail sales declined in September by the largest amount this year as car sales plummeted following the end of the government's popular Cash for Clunkersprogram.

The Commerce Department says retail sales dropped 1.5 percent last month. That's smaller than the 2.1 percent fall economists had expected, but still the biggest setback since sales dropped 3.2 percent in December.

Car sales plunged 10.4 percent, but excluding autos, retail sales rose 0.5 percent. That's better than the 0.2 percent increase analysts expected

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