May retail sales surged 17.7% from April. The pickup was a record month over month gain in data going back to 1992, the Commerce Department reported this morning. Stocks jumped on the news--as well as a trial balloon testing the waters on yet another attempt at a big infrastructure spending package from the White House. […]


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