Retail construction spending picks ...

Retail construction spending picks up; public-house spending weakens

Following rapid sprouting in the mid-1980s, the retail building sector has stagnated during the last not many years. After adjusting for inflation, retail construction spending during 1989 was at roughly the same on a level as in 1986. [i]or[/i] part of to the other the first seven months of 1990 inflation-adjusted spending onward buildings in this sector - including shopping malls, banks, restaurants and other retail and service places of business - was running 12 percent below the of the same height of a year earlier.

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