Americans picked up their spending in November ahead of the pivotal holiday season as inflation showed welcome signs of cooling.&nbsp;

<a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/category/retail" target="_blank">Retail sales</a>, a measure of how much consumers spent on a number of everyday goods including cars, food and gasoline, rose 0.3% in November, the Commerce Department said Thursday. That is above both the 0.1% decline projected by Refinitiv economists and the revised 0.2% drop recorded in October.

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Retail sales rebounded in November after declining the previous month as American consumers picked up their spending in the face of falling inflation.{ai:summary}US retail sales in November increased by 0.3%, exceeding expectations and indicating improved consumer spending. #economy

Retail sales unexpectedly rise in November as consumers keep spending

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